To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
EDWARD DE BONOThere is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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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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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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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.
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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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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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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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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Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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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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