It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
EDWARD DE BONOIt has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
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The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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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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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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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
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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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To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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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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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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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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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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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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