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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

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
It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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Amazing Attention Humor Pay
Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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One Liner Perception Reality
If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Change Mindset Oneself Yourself
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
Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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Creativity Hope Idea Worth
What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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Important Urgent
People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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People Realize
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
I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don’t acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
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Dangerous Identity Image People Thinking Young
A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Democracy Goodness One Liner
You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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Different Hole Place Yourself
Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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Creativity Ideas Nurture Practice Talent Thinking
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Mindset Preparation See
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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Employment Teaching Thinking
Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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Complex Creation Creativity Focus Simplicity

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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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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