Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
EDWARD DE BONOComplexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway – we just disguise them as logic.
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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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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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Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination – so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
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Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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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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It is well known that “problem avoidance” is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
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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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It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
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What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That’s a rate of 7,256 children’s lives saved each day. It drives me nuts that most people don’t seem to know this news.
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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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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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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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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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