Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
EDWARD DE BONOYou cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway – we just disguise them as logic.
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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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Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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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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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.
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In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
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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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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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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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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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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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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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