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.

  • -- Edward de Bono 爱德华·德·波诺

大多数高管、许多科学家以及几乎所有商学院毕业生都认为,如果你分析数据,这将给你带来新的想法。不幸的是,这种想法是完全错误的。头脑只能看到它准备看到的东西。

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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

一个人不是因为全神贯注于思考而无所事事。有看得见的劳动,也有看不见的劳动。

I'm not an analyzer. I've got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don't analyze people.

我不是分析者。我有个儿子能分析所有人和事。但我不分析人。

The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody's a publisher.

专业人士将加入到普通人的行列。每个人的一个出版商。

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

我们中的一些人有伟大的原创想法,而我们中的一些人依赖于适应。

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

在爱情中,女人是专业的,男人是业余的。

We don't analyze our lyrics.

我们不分析歌词。