Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
EDWARD DE BONOThe analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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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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They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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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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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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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway – we just disguise them as logic.
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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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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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Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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Lateral thinking is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.
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