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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.

Edward de Bono

Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
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Company Competition Death Focus Thrive Ultimate
Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
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Focus Important Question Simplicity Way
Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
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Analysis Debate Description Education Society Tradition
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
You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people’s hearts, and that’s hard enough.
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Enough Hard Heart Hold People Religion Rule Tradition
I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn’t have the established route to it.
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Children Deal Establishment Greatness Route Work Young
Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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Creativity Greatness Interest Motivational People
The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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Image Mindset People Reflection
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Design Future 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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Attraction Beautiful Goodness Listening Love Yourself
The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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Acceptance Concept Logic Rejection Selection Thinking
I’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
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Dreams Goal Moments
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
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
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
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
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Creativity Doubt Forever Human Important Progress Repeat Resource

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