Perception is real even when it is not reality.
EDWARD DE BONOThey enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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The vertical thinker says: ‘I know what I am looking for.’ The lateral thinker says: ‘I am looking but I won’t know what I am looking for until I have found it.’
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The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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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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Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.
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