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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.

Edward de Bono

Thinking 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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Better Goodness Human Resource Thinking Ultimate
Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Happiness Live Myself Need
Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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Basis Creativity Thinking
You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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Different Hole Oneself
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
If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Change Mindset Oneself Yourself
Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
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Change Error Ideas Leadership Mistake Perception Study
Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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Effect Purpose Tools Value
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
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Creativity Doubt Forever Human Important Progress Repeat Resource
Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
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Future Thinking Traditional Willing
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
Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Born Intelligence Learning Skill Thinking
Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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Creativity Ideas Nurture Practice Talent Thinking
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.
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Enough Hard Heart Hold People Religion Rule Tradition
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
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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Assume History Maintain Repeat Valid

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