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Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway – we just disguise them as logic.

Edward de Bono

The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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Analysis Data Ideas Production
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
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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Development Existence Ideas
A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Democracy Goodness One Liner
Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Happiness Live Myself Need
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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Cheap Human Humor Mindset Reason
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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Children Deal Establishment Greatness Route Work Young
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.
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Attention Change Humor Mindset Paid Philosophy Reason Surprise
Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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History Poverty Willing Yourself
Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Born Intelligence Learning Skill Thinking
Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Creativity Learning Level
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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Better Ignorance Moments Oneself Word
You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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Different Hole Place Yourself
The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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Aware Awful Yourself
The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
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Chance Company Insurance Solid Wealth
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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Assume History Maintain Repeat Valid

Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway – we just disguise them as logic.

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