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The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.

Edward de Bono

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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Creativity Idea Value
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Crowd Opportunity Wait Willing
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
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Action Problem Situation Time Way
Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.
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Operational People Science Teaching
As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.
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Better Competition Creativity Intense Need Problem Solve
The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Car Drive Power Separate
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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Design Difference Enjoyment Future Need Past Suffering Yourself
The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
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Count Defend Enough Innovation People System
Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Creativity Learning Level
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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Gratitude Problem Situation Time Way
Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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Play Possible Progress Thinking
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
The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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Analysis Data Ideas Production
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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Employment Teaching Thinking
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
Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Happiness Live Myself Need

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