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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.

Edward de Bono

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Crowd Opportunity Wait Willing
People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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People Realize
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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Logic Mistake Thinking
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
It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
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Enough Lying Replacement Truth
Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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Complex Creation Creativity Focus Simplicity
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Drive Intelligence People Poor Thinking
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
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Argument Creation Reveal Truth Yourself
Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
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Cheap Human Humor Mindset Reason
You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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Different Hole Oneself
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Design Future Yourself
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
If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Change Mindset Oneself Yourself
Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
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Bad Creativity Doubt Essential Man Need Success
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

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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