A question is a polite way of demanding something.
EDWARD DE BONOTraditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
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Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
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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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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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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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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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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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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.
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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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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.
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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 simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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I’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
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Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
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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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Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination – so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
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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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Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.
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The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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