Bono Quotes

You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.

The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

Perspective is the cure for depression.

Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.

If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

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.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle - and not just in the sense of money, by the way. The Beatles are untouchable. That’s just a joke.

You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.

Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.

America is not just a country, it's an idea.

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.

The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

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.

Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.

We can't fix all problems but we must fix the ones we can

If I don't understand it, it must be art.

I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.

Laughter is eternity if joy is real.

Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.

The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.

In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

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.

As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Perception is real even when it is not reality.

Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.