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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

The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
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Count Defend Enough Innovation People System
Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Creativity Learning Level
I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn’t have the established route to it.
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Children Deal Establishment Greatness Route Work Young
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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Car Mistake Production Remove
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
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
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Complete Memories
A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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Character Discover Ideas Intuition Solution
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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Aspect Creativity Important Motivational Powerful Source Willing
Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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Creativity Greatness Interest Motivational People
The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Car Drive Power Separate
A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Democracy Goodness One Liner
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Activity Brain Human Humor
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
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
If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Change Mindset Oneself Yourself

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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