The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.

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The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.

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Absorb Perception

Bagwalas

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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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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Aspect Creativity Source Willing
I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.

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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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Known
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.

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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Analysis
The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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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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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 Tradition
To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.

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To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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Analysis
Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.

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Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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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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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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Production
This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.

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This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.
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Proper System
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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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.

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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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Concept Pattern Perception
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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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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Creativity
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

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The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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Creativity Source
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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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 Mad
On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn’t about charity, it’s about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.

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On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn’t about charity, it’s about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.
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Hypocrisy Idea Trade

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