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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward de Bono

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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Dreams Goal Moments
Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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Simplicity Understand
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
Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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Basis Creativity Thinking
Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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Play Possible Progress Thinking
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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Logic Mistake Thinking
Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Complex Distraction Effort Simplicity
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Ideas Need Right Time
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
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Attention Change Humor Mindset Paid Philosophy Reason Surprise
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
Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.
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Attitude Construction Exception Moments People
We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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Design Judgement Seek
Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
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Bad Creativity Doubt Essential Man Need Success
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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God Music Recognition Run
To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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Analysis Deal Future Possible
It is well known that “problem avoidance” is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
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Avoidance Important Place Problem System

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