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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

To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Faith God Poor
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
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Complete Memories
The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
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God Music Recognition Run
Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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Complex Creation Creativity Focus Simplicity
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Activity Brain Human Humor
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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Discover Ideas Lying Need Opportunity Production
I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn’t have the established route to it.
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Children Deal Establishment Greatness Route Work Young
You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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Direction Hard Yourself
The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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Image Mindset People Reflection
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
To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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Confidence Development Enjoyment Skills
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Ideas Need Right Time
The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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Aware Awful Yourself
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.
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Fashion Human Language Progress Way
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

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.

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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.

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