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Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better.

Edward de Bono

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
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Chance Company Insurance Solid Wealth
Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
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Focus Important Question Simplicity Way
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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Imagination Story Time Writing
I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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Heart Hurt Known Myself Pain Walk
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching 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 may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.
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Better Improvement Perfection Problem Solve Way
People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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People Realize
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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Better Enough Ideas Right Wrong
I’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
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Dreams Goal Moments
Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
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Future Thinking Traditional Willing
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
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Attention Deal Mental Energy Necessary Simplicity Time
Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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Creativity Greatness Interest Motivational People
Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Achievement Creativity Possible
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 Growth Mad Success Talent
What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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Important Urgent

Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better.

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Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better.

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