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One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Edward de Bono

Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.
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Operational People Science Teaching
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
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
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Feild Growth Mad Success Talent
The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Car Drive Power Separate
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
Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Complex Distraction Effort Simplicity
People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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People Realize
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Crowd Opportunity Wait Willing
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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Employment Teaching Thinking
Lateral thinking is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.
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Creativity Information Mathematics Process Thinking
I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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Heart Hurt Known Myself Pain Walk
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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Fashion Human Language Progress Way
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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Beyond Doubt Improvement Right Sacred Way
The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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Determination Future Ourselves Quality Thinking
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
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Break Creativity Experience Freedom Need Order Temporary
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.
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Cheap Human Humor Mindset Reason

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

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One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

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