Edward de Bono
Edward de Bono
Edward de Bono is a Maltese physician, psychologist, author, inventor and consultant. He originated the term lateral thinking, wrote the book Six Thinking Hats and is a proponent of the teaching of thinking as a subject in schools...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth19 May 1933
gratitude ungrateful negative
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
data ideas analysis
The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas...
two suits-you perception
Being right is not too difficult. Your choose your perception. You select your information. You leave out what does not suit you. You drag in some general-purpose value words. You throw in a sneer or two about the opposition, and you are a fine fellow who made a fine speech.
important precedence urgent
What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
stars awkward roles
I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.
knowledge learning use
The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
mind facts commodity
Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
children giving may
I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.
fighting thinking lessons
My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
real self-esteem mean
(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you are ever wrong, because you are defending not the idea but your self-esteem. (...) this terror of being wrong means that people have enormous difficulties in changing ideas.
mean alternatives adequate
We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.
beautiful mind attractive
A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
ignorance writing history
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
bible submission-to-god temptation
Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.