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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.

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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Ideas Need Right Time
Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn’t have the established route to it.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.
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We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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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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Dignity Himself Proper System Weakness Wrong
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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Assume History Maintain Repeat Valid
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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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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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
If you never change your mind, why have one?
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