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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.

Edward de Bono

The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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Determination Future Ourselves Quality Thinking
There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.
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Dangerous Information Social Media Thinking Yourself
I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don’t acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
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Dangerous Identity Image People Thinking Young
Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Happiness Live Myself Need
Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway – we just disguise them as logic.
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Business Discussion Feeling Logic
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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Action Problem Situation Time Way
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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Attitude Construction Exception Moments People
Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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One Liner Perception Reality
The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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Arrogant Effect Sin Thinking Treat
Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Complex Distraction Effort Simplicity
A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
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Attraction Beautiful Goodness Listening Love Yourself
A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Democracy Goodness One Liner
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
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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God Music Recognition Run
They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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Creativity Enjoyment Ideas Thinking
You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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Direction Hard Yourself

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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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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