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They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.

Edward de Bono

Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.
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Fashion Human Language Progress Way
Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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Creativity Hope Idea Worth
Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Complex Distraction Effort Simplicity
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Crowd Opportunity Wait Willing
Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Achievement Creativity Possible
I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don’t acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
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Dangerous Identity Image People Thinking Young
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
In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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Aesthetic Art Criteria Emotional Expression Reason World
The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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Comfort Finding Myself Old Problem
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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Destroy Evidence Support Way World
Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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Creativity Fun Interest Life
Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
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Analysis Debate Description Education Society Tradition
The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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Analysis Data Ideas Production
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
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Feild Growth Mad Success Talent
Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
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Future Thinking Traditional Willing
The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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Determination Future Ourselves Quality Thinking

They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.

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