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

Edward de Bono

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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Employment Teaching Thinking
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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Existence Ideas Immortal Spring
Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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Effect Purpose Tools Value
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Crowd Opportunity Wait Willing
To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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Confidence Development Enjoyment Skills
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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Break Creativity Experience Freedom Need Order Temporary
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Analysis Design Future Past Yourself
Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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Complex Creation Creativity Focus Simplicity
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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Cheap Human Humor Mindset Reason
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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Better Ignorance Moments Oneself Word
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
We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.
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Better Improvement Perfection Problem Solve Way
The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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Aware Awful Yourself
You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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Direction Hard Yourself
A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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Attempt Complete Discussion Ego Explore Genuine Subject
Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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Devil Run

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