Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
EDWARD DE BONOThe Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
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On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn’t about charity, it’s about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.
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The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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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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Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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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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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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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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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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Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.
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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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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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Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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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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To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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