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Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.

Edward de Bono

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
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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Future Possible Preparation Strive
When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.
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Imagination Story Time Writing
To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Faith God Poor
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
I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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Friendship Loyalty Myself
The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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Aware Awful Yourself
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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Creativity Different Establishment Order Pattern Way
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
There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.
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Dangerous Information Social Media Thinking Yourself
People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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People Realize
Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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Creativity Fun Interest Life
Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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Better Criticism Oneself
Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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History Poverty Willing Yourself
A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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Demand Polite Question
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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Assume History Maintain Repeat Valid

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