You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
EDWARD DE BONOAsking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
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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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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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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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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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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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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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To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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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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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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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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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.
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