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
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
I used to think that one day I'd be able to resolve the different drives I have in different directions, the tensions between the different people I am. Now I realize that is who I am. I do feel I'm getting closer to the song in my head. I wasn't looking for grace. But luckily grace was looking for me.
People should realize we're jerks just like them.
Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future
Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.