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We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

Edward de Bono

The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Mindset Preparation See
I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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Friendship Loyalty Myself
You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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Different Hole Place Yourself
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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Arrival Destination Social Truth Value
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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Enough Hard Heart Hold People Religion Rule Tradition
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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Absorb Art Perception Purpose Reflection Value
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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Place Problem Remove Solve
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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Creativity Doubt Human Resource
Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Born Intelligence Learning Skill Thinking
The vertical thinker says: ‘I know what I am looking for.’ The lateral thinker says: ‘I am looking but I won’t know what I am looking for until I have found it.’
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Finding Philosophy Thinking
Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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Effect Purpose Tools Value
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Drive Intelligence People Poor Thinking
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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Creativity Ideas Nurture Practice Talent Thinking
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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Avoidance Important Place Problem System
The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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Best Chef Ingredient Result Win
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Crowd Opportunity Wait Willing

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