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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

Edward de Bono

The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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Determination Future Ourselves Quality Thinking
The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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Creativity Focus Powerful Process Simplicity Source
We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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Design Judgement Seek
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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Charity Hypocrisy Idea Justice Stop Trade
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Design Future Yourself
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Complete Memories
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
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
Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.
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Fashion Human Language Progress Way
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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Attention Change Humor Mindset Paid Philosophy Reason Surprise
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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Basis Creativity Thinking
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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Better Ignorance Moments Oneself Word
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Activity Brain Human Humor
Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Achievement Creativity Possible
Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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Creativity Greatness Interest Motivational People

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