Edward De Bono Famous Quotes
"Politics when I am in it, makes me sick."
"Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car."
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
"Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists."
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward De Bono Quotations
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Warren Beatty
"He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray."
Homer
"It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it."
La Rochefoucauld
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
"It's not good to let any kid near a container that has a skull and crossbones on it, because there might be a skeleton costume inside and the kid could put it on and really scare you."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem."
Richard Needham
It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
A Bartlett Giamatti
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Albert Camus
"To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want."
Ernest Hemingway
Out of the frying pan into the fire.
Quintus Septimius Tertullianus