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A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.

Edward de Bono

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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Employment Teaching Thinking
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
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
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 need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Ideas Need Right Time
What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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Important Urgent
If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Change Mindset Oneself Yourself
The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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Arrogant Effect Sin Thinking Treat
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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Attention Expert Ignorance Judgement Pay Success
In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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Aesthetic Art Criteria Emotional Expression Reason World
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
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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Complex Creation Creativity Focus Simplicity
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
Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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Creativity Hope Idea Worth
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
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Car Mistake Production Remove

A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.

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