“If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.”

We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.

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.

To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.

A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

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.

The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination – so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.

Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people’s hearts, and that’s hard enough.

A good design is not a democratic consensus.

Lampard’s not the first player to run to the crowd with lips over his mouth.

I could live in the woods with thee in sight, Where never should human foot intrude: Or with thee find light in the darkest night, And a social crowd in solitude.

After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port.

The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.

What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.

Today, do just a little bit more. Turn going the extra mile into a habit – it is what lifts most successful people above the crowd.

Chances are, if you are following the crowd, you’re following the wrong path.

I guess they have had 16 years when they haven’t even been close in an Ashes series but we have found some sections of the crowd to be scathing and harsh. That has not been overly enjoyable. We have seen a pretty ugly side in some supporters.