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.
EDWARD DE BONOThinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better.
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To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
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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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Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
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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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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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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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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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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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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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