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To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

Edward de Bono

A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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Attempt Complete Discussion Ego Explore Genuine Subject
We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.
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Better Improvement Perfection Problem Solve Way
It is well known that “problem avoidance” is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
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Avoidance Important Place Problem System
Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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History Poverty Willing Yourself
They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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Creativity Enjoyment Ideas Thinking
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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Creativity Information Mathematics Process Thinking
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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Discover Ideas Lying Need Opportunity Production
Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Achievement Creativity Possible
The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
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God Music Recognition Run
Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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One Liner Perception Reality
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Design Future Yourself
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Analysis Design Future Past Yourself
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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Dreams Goal Moments
Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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Creativity Fun Interest Life
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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Arrival Destination Social Truth Value
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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Development Existence Ideas

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