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Edward de Bono

A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
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Destroy Evidence Support Way World
Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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Basis Creativity Thinking
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
A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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Attempt Complete Discussion Ego Explore Genuine Subject
Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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History Poverty Willing Yourself
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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Assume History Maintain Repeat Valid
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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Logic Mistake Thinking
To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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Confidence Development Enjoyment Skills
You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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Direction Hard Yourself
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
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
Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.
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Beyond Doubt Improvement Right Sacred Way
Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.
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Attitude Construction Exception Moments People
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Crowd Opportunity Wait Willing
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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Gratitude Problem Situation Time Way

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