Edward de Bono Quotes

I just want to focus on one thing at a time.

The next point - that's all you must think about.

My encouragement: delete the energy vampires from your life, clean out all complexity, build a team around you that frees you to fly, remove anything toxic, and cherish simplicity. Because that's where genius lives.

It's better to do one thing at a time and give your full concentration.

I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

Keep out of your mind, and out of your office, and out of your world, every element that seeks admittance with no definite, helpful, useful end in view.

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

I only do one thing at a time; otherwise, I get confused and then I can't trick you.

How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

Whoever does great things with small means has successfully reached the goal.

Meditation is how to drop knowledge. Meditation means how to become ignorant again. Meditation means how to become a child again, a rose bush, a rock. Meditation means how just to be and not to think.

Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.

The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need.

The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.

In normal life, 'simplicity' is synonymous with 'easy to do,' but when a chef uses the word, it means 'takes a lifetime to learn.'

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

Once we've made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness.

As you consider building your own minimum viable product, let this simple rule suffice: remove any feature, process, or effort that does not contribute directly to the learning you seek.