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Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.

Edward de Bono

Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better.
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Better Goodness Human Resource Thinking Ultimate
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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Discover Ideas Lying Need Opportunity Production
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
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Mindset Preparation See
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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Logic Mistake Thinking
A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Democracy Goodness One Liner
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Activity Brain Human Humor
What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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Change Display Important Joke Perception Thinking
Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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Devil Run
The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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Analysis Data Ideas Production
I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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Friendship Loyalty Myself
Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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Basis Creativity Thinking
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 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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Allow Analysis Description Purpose Science
Lateral thinking is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.
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Creativity Information Mathematics Process Thinking
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

Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.

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