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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

Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Achievement Creativity Possible
They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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Creativity Enjoyment Ideas Thinking
A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Democracy Goodness One Liner
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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Attraction Beautiful Goodness Listening Love Yourself
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
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Action Problem Situation Time Way
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
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
Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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Effect Purpose Tools Value
You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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Different Hole Place Yourself
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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History Poverty Willing 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
Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Happiness Live Myself Need
Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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One Liner Perception Reality
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
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Argument Creation Reveal Truth Yourself

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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