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Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.

Edward de Bono

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
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
A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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Attempt Complete Discussion Ego Explore Genuine Subject
Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Complex Distraction Effort Simplicity
Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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Enough Excellence Existence Habit Thinking
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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Development Existence Ideas
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
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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Logic Mistake Thinking
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
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Destroy Evidence Support Way World
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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Better Ignorance Moments Oneself Word
What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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Change Display Important Joke Perception Thinking
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
As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.
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Better Competition Creativity Intense Need Problem Solve
Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.
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Creative Empowerment Learning People Production Profit Skills Thinking
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
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

Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.

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Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.

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