Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward de Bono

Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better

Edward de Bono

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.

Edward de Bono

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

Edward de Bono

Unfortunately, our existing traditional thinking habits insist that you must attack something and show it to be bad before you can suggest a change. It is more difficult to acknowledge that something is excellent and then to ask for change because although it is excellent, it is not enough.

Edward de Bono

Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.

Edward de Bono

Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.

Edward de Bono

What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.

Edward Boyden

Suppose there are some things that we don't understand about the universe, but if you understand human intelligence and you understand the gaps in our abilities to think about things, maybe we can engineer in a computer more advanced intelligences that can help augment our ability to think.

Edward Boyden

We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.

Edward Boyden

I think the definition will change as we learn more, but my working definition of solving the brain is: one, we can model, maybe in a computer, the processes that generate things like thoughts and feelings, and two, we can understand how to cure brain disorders, like Alzheimer's and epilepsy. Those are my two driving goals. One is more human-condition oriented, and one more clinical.

Edward Boyden

I often try to think about, What sounds like a bad idea, but if you find the right plan of attack, it's actually a really good idea? I spend a lot of time really trying to systematically tackle problems from different angles.

Edward Boyden

If you think backwards from a big problem, and you talk to all these other people who have skills and who think forward from their skills, it's very easy to form collaborations because everyone is incentivized to work together.

Edward Boyden

It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.

Edward Bond

In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice

Edward Bond

I think there is no world without theatre.

Edward Albee

As a fairly objective judgment, I do think that my plays as they come out are better than most other things that are put on the same year. But that doesn't make them very good necessarily.

Edward Albee

I do think, or rather I sense that there is a relationship - at least in my own work - between a dramatic structure, the form and sound and shape of a play, and the equivalent structure in music. Both deal with sound, of course, and also with idea, theme.

Edward Albee

In the theater, which is a sort of jungle, one does have to be a little bit careful. One mustn't be so rigid or egotistical to think that every comma is sacrosanct. But at the same time there is the danger of losing control and finding that somebody else has opened a play and not you.

Edward Albee

I think it's for the critics to decide whether or not their loathing of the play is based on something other than the play's merits or demerits. They must search their own souls, or whatever.

Edward Albee

I discover that I am thinking about a play, which is the first awareness I have that a new play is forming. When I'm aware of the play forming in my head, it's already at a certain degree in development.

Edward Albee

Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.

Edward Albee

I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.

Edi Gathegi

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

Edie Sedgwick

I think drugs are like strawberries and peaches.

Edie Campbell

I actually can't think of anything worse than being famous... Fame really distorts your perception of yourself.

Edie Campbell

I think Stella Tennant is amazing. And then I really loved all those 60s society models, like Edie Sedgwick.

Edie Campbell

I think TV shows have usurped films!

Edie Brickell

I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem.

Edie Falco

I think that you do get a little extra jolt of confidence when you win an Emmy.

Edie Falco

I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.

Edie Falco

I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.

Edie Falco

The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.

Edie Falco

An addict is an addict. If they're not acting out in one area, it tends to come out in another. I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate.