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Do we have the will to make poverty history?

Edward de Bono

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
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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Argument Criticism Design Opportunity Technology Value
The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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Determination Future Ourselves Quality Thinking
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 mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Mindset Preparation See
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
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Drive Intelligence People Poor Thinking
A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Democracy Goodness One Liner
I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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Friendship Loyalty Myself
We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.
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Information Need Substitute Thinking
Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Happiness Live Myself Need
Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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Change Emotion Logic Perception
The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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Aware Awful Yourself
My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
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Fight Lesson Listening Teaching Thinking Time
Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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Creativity Hope Idea Worth
A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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Character Discover Ideas Intuition Solution

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