"An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore."

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Edward de Bono

#Knowing Quotes #Decision Quotes #Judgement Quotes

“The end of all motion is its beginning; for it terminates at no other end save its own beginning from which begins to be moved and to which it tends ever to return, in order to cease and rest in it.”
“If your motives aren't clean, money itself becomes evil. But When we don't have money enough evil, the world tells us we're losers. So what determines our place in society is not how much kindness is in our hearts but how much evil is in our wallet.”
“There are no roadblocks, only springboards.”
“You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion....But I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity.”
“Scots are born exiles, and Scotland the perfect country to be exiled from. Do not imagine that I am running down Scotland. Far from it. ... No, what I mean is that Scotland's beauties, though undeniable, are obvious ones, easy to carry in the heart, easy even to describe to the benighted members of less fortunate races. Lakes, islands and mountains, heather and rowan, broad straths and narrow glens - these are jewels easily worn in the memory ...”

Source : Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”
“The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked out, but Slash and Axl stopped working together”
“Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night.”
“I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph.”

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