Top 100 Quotes About Bono
#1. Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
Bono
#2. 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
#3. An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Edward De Bono
#4. Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know.
Bono
#5. A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
Edward De Bono
#6. People who know our music, they know who you are. They've been in the dark room, they know you better than your best friend, because you don't sing like that to your best friend, you don't sing in their ear.
Bono
#7. People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.
Sonny Bono
#8. You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper
Edward De Bono
#9. I don't like the name, U2, actually.
Bono
#10. In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
Bono
#11. If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
Edward De Bono
#13. U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
Bono
#14. Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.
Sonny Bono
#15. Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
Edward De Bono
#16. What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
Bono
#17. As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putting out. I have to be trying to say something, for one. I have to not oversell what I'm trying to say. I can't 'Bono' it.
Isaac Brock
#18. The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
Edward De Bono
#19. A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family.
Chaz Bono
#20. Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
Bono
#21. The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future
Edward De Bono
#22. If I was any more on edge, I'd be Bono ...
Andy Samberg
#23. I can't change the world but I can change the world in me.
Bono
#24. Christians are hard to tolerate; I don't know how Jesus does it
Bono
#25. If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.
Bono
#27. 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.
Edward De Bono
#28. I think God isn't interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of good news and love and comfort and hope across through people like us, ordinary people, or extraordinary people like Bono.
Philip Yancey
#29. Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Edward De Bono
#30. By the same token, I think news has more and more of a pro bono aspect to all the networks. When we do our election coverages throughout this coming year, it's not a money-maker for us. It is more of a public service situation.
Leslie Moonves
#31. Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided
with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.
P. J. O'Rourke
#32. The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
Edward De Bono
#33. I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
Bono
#34. If you understand the system you can design appropriate action.
Edward De Bono
#35. So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
Bono
#36. Lateral thinking ... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.
Edward De Bono
#37. A degree of narcissism is necessary, I suppose, to look in the pool to see your reflection. (Bono)
Bono
#38. In 80% of Socrates' dialogues there was no constructive outcome. He saw his role as simply pointing out what was wrong.
Edward De Bono
#39. A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
Edward De Bono
#40. We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back.
Bono
#41. Rock stars are good at making noise.
Bono
#42. The Latin term pro bono, as most attorneys will attest, roughly translated means for boneheads and applies to work done without charge.
Sue Grafton
#43. De Bono argues that the West's tradition of settling disagreement by debate or argument is an example of overreliance on logic.
Steve Volk
#44. Bono give you any terms?"
"Me, the Crusader, and you. Tonight."
How nice. A party for the top three on the upir's most wanted list.
Ilona Andrews
#45. There's no way the person who made these lists actually has kids. They should be shot. And at this moment, I would defend the person who shoots them, pro bono. Just saying.
Emma Chase
#46. At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.
Bono
#47. It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star.
I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.
Bono
#48. I feel really good, I feel like a man now, and I'm really happy.
Chaz Bono
#49. The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.
Bono
#50. For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.
Bono
#51. The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.
Bono
#52. Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter.
Bono
#53. Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
Bono
#54. Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later
Bono
#55. God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.
Bono
#56. U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.
Bono
#57. I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.
Liam Neeson
#58. I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.
Bono
#59. I'm as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes - and I will dare to say to you that I don't think of myself as a celebrity per se.
Bono
#60. Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
Edward De Bono
#61. As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
Bono
#62. God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
Bono
#63. Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
Edward De Bono
#64. People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.
Chaz Bono
#65. Created for MTV in 1990, the sharply observed, pop-conscious Ben Stiller Show - featuring its star's lacerating impersonations of Bono, Tom Cruise, and Eddie Munster, among others - subsequently moved to Fox TV and copped an Emmy for writing.
Manohla Dargis
#66. Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement has. But I'm an activist - that's just the kind of person I am.
Chaz Bono
#67. I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
Bono
#68. There was a moment when Prince did rock & roll with a sponge-y seductive sound. I think that's what was in our head for 'Get On Your Boots.' But actually, the song is much more punk rock.
Bono
#69. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
Bono
#70. Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.
Chaz Bono
#71. To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
Bono
#72. I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.
Sonny Bono
#73. But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.
Bono
#74. Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
Edward De Bono
#75. What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.
Chaz Bono
#76. I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.
Bono
#77. America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.
Bono
#79. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
Edward De Bono
#81. We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
Edward De Bono
#82. I think that the camera loves peopke who ... loathe the camera (Bono)
Bono
#83. Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
Edward De Bono
#84. Arnold has succeeded at every level, and I believe he is the only person that can unite the people of this state and lead California from its current dysfunctional condition to the bright future that all residents long for.
Mary Bono
#85. I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.
Sonny Bono
#86. A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.
Edward De Bono
#87. What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
Bono
#88. If Oprah, Steven Spielberg and Bono had a baby, I would be that baby.
Jason Russell
#89. We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.
Edward De Bono
#90. Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.
Bono
#91. Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Bono
#92. Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
Bono
#93. U2 is an original species ... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
Bono
#94. When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.
Bono
#95. In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows they learned to swim
Bono
#96. Jesus isn't lettin' you off the hook. The Scriptures don't let you off the hook so easily ... When people say, you know, 'Good teacher', 'Prophet', 'Really nice guy' ... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.
Bono
#97. If your heart was hard, that would be better / You could only break it once or twice / After that it would be rid of blood and you could let it turn to ice.
Bono
#98. Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
Bono
#99. This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.
Edward De Bono
#100. You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
Edward De Bono
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