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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.

Edward de Bono

Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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One Liner Perception Reality
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
I’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
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Dreams Goal Moments
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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Attention Expert Ignorance Judgement Pay Success
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.
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Bad Creativity Doubt Essential Man Need Success
The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
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Count Defend Enough Innovation People System
In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
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Future Possible Preparation Strive
The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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Comfort Finding Myself Old Problem
If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Change Mindset Oneself Yourself
Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.
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Existence Ideas Immortal Spring
Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
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Creativity Idea Value
Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That’s a rate of 7,256 children’s lives saved each day. It drives me nuts that most people don’t seem to know this news.
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Children Live News People
Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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Simplicity Understand
Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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Devil Run
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.
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Better Competition Creativity Intense Need Problem Solve
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking

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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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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