Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
EDWARD DE BONOCreativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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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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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
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