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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.

Edward de Bono

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
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
The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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Arrogant Effect Sin Thinking Treat
People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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People Realize
The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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Determination Future Ourselves Quality Thinking
If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Change Mindset Oneself Yourself
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
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Attention Deal Mental Energy Necessary Simplicity Time
Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Happiness Live Myself Need
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
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Destroy Evidence Support Way World
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
The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.
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Absorb Art Perception Purpose Reflection Value
To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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Confidence Development Enjoyment Skills
A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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Demand Polite Question
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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Creativity Different Establishment Order Pattern Way
When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.
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Imagination Story Time Writing
To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Faith God Poor

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.

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