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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.

Edward de Bono

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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Logic Mistake Thinking
Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Achievement Creativity Possible
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Crowd Opportunity Wait Willing
The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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Comfort Finding Myself Old Problem
Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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Change Emotion Logic Perception
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
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Destroy Evidence Support Way World
I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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Heart Hurt Known Myself Pain Walk
Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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Simplicity Understand
In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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Aesthetic Art Criteria Emotional Expression Reason World
You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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Direction Hard Yourself
Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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One Liner Perception Reality
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
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Attention Deal Mental Energy Necessary Simplicity Time
The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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Creativity Focus Powerful Process Simplicity Source
To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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Analysis Deal Future Possible
Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.
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Beyond Doubt Improvement Right Sacred Way
A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Democracy Goodness One Liner

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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