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

Edward de Bono

The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Mindset Preparation See
Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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One Liner Perception Reality
You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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Different Hole Oneself
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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Best Definition Expectation Happiness Ourselves Talent
We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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Design Judgement Seek
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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Assume History Maintain Repeat Valid
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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Attention Expert Ignorance Judgement Pay Success
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 Art Perception Purpose Reflection Value
Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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History Poverty Willing 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
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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Development Existence Ideas
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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Dignity Himself Proper System Weakness Wrong
The vertical thinker says: ‘I know what I am looking for.’ The lateral thinker says: ‘I am looking but I won’t know what I am looking for until I have found it.’
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Finding Philosophy Thinking
A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Democracy Goodness One Liner
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Analysis Design Future Past Yourself
The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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Image Mindset People Reflection

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