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
Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is there all the time. It is the same with concepts. They are there. They underlie practical things we do- even when we are not conscious of them.
You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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.
Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.