Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
EDWARD DE BONOPossibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
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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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It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
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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 concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Lateral thinking is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.
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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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A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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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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The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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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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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
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Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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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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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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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
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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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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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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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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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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.
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