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We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

Edward de Bono

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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Design Difference Enjoyment Future Need Past Suffering Yourself
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
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Action Problem Situation Time Way
Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Born Intelligence Learning Skill Thinking
To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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Analysis Deal Future Possible
Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
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Analysis Debate Description Education Society Tradition
A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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Demand Polite Question
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.
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Attitude Construction Exception Moments People
Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Creativity Learning Level
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Drive Intelligence People Poor Thinking
Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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Devil Run
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Ideas Need Right Time
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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Acceptance Concept Logic Rejection Selection Thinking
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Argument Creation Reveal Truth Yourself
There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.
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Dangerous Information Social Media Thinking Yourself
Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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History Poverty Willing Yourself

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