Bono
Bono
Paul David Hewson, known by his stage name Bono, is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, venture capitalist, businessman, and philanthropist. He is best known as the lead vocalist of rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Alison Stewart, and the future members of U2. Bono writes almost all U2 lyrics, frequently using religious, social, and political themes. During U2's early years, his lyrics contributed to...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth10 May 1960
CityGlasnevin, Ireland
CountryIreland
I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.
The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.
There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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.