You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people’s hearts, and that’s hard enough.
EDWARD DE BONOIn the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
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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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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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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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The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
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A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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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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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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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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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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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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Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.
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Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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