The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
EDWARD DE BONOThe 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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What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.
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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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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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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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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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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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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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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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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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Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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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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Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
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