Edward de Bono: Doing

Edward de Bono is Maltese physician. Explore interesting quotes on doing.

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“Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.”

Edward de Bono

Source: The Use of Lateral Thinking

Way

“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.”

Edward de Bono

Source: How To Have A Beautiful Mind

Beauty

“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.”

Edward de Bono

Source: Six Thinking Hats Revised Edition

Way , Problem

“I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers. They just go and look it up or they just chat with someone. In other words, relying on something rather than saying: "Okay, I've got the information, how do I create value from it?"”

Edward de Bono

When asked "Have we become too reliant on computers?"
[Hamish, Mackintosh, http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/1999/sep/23/onlinesupplement2, Deep thought, The Guardian, 1999-09-23, 2008-10-15]

People , Thinking , Sense , Dependency