#kin

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#decisions #expert #ignore #judgements #knowing

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#creativity #different #different way #established #involves

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#creativity #idea #mystical #nurtured #practised

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. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#africa #after #among #breaking #every

I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody. ↗

— David Bowie

#am #amount #backing #everybody #extraordinary

I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery. ↗

— Alanna Ubach

#first #had #i #invention #made

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be. ↗

— David Bowie

#center #changes #experience #gone #guess

I enjoy working with Melissa a great deal. We're always looking for projects to do together. I was happy to have her do the show, because she doesn't normally do episodic unless she's starring, and I was very happy with the results. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

#because #deal #enjoy #episodic #great

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#back #bowl #brand-new #every #every night

You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff. ↗

— Gary Webb

#anything #believe #especially #government #important