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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

Edward de Bono

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Crowd Opportunity Wait Willing
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
People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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People Realize
The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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Analysis Data Ideas Production
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
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
We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
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Place Problem Remove Solve
The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Car Drive Power Separate
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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Better Enough Ideas Right Wrong
America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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Country Idea One Liner
Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.
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Beyond Doubt Improvement Right Sacred Way
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
Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Happiness Live Myself Need
It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
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Enough Lying Replacement Truth
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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Creativity Doubt Human Resource
Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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Creativity Ideas Nurture Practice Talent Thinking

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

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