Edward de Bono Quotes
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Quotes to Explore
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Angulo presents a difficult challenge because he's a fighter who can punch and take a great punch.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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To the solace of his name, simply saying 'Muhammad' has an incredibly soothing effect on me.
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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
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The best thing you can do for your body is sleep. It's simple. Cater to your body as much as to your mind. Your body, after all, houses your mind. You have to pay attention to your physicality as much as your mentality.
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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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It is better to be likable than to be talented.
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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
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I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.
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Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man’s equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.
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A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.
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There's a club if you'd like to go, you could meet somebody who really loves you,so you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own,and you go home and you cry and you want to die
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One of my favorite comedies is 'Three Amigos!' Oh my gosh, me and my brother quote that all the time.
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AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases.
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I like songs that make me feel tough. Like 'Back in Black.' You want to hear it again and get in a fight.
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I was, like, talking to these kids, and I look up, and there was, like, 25 cameras around me. And I ran. I ran away. I, like, straight up ran away, and I was so scared, and then, like, it happened, and after I was done, it kinda sunk in.
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The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
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I've often asked myself, how much information can the brain actually hold? There'll probably come a day when you're able to download it; that's what you have to do when the machine's full.
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Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who I could be, I accepted the stories others told me about myself, stories which diminished and belittled me and people like me. I want to write against that.
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
