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.
EDWARD DE BONOThe 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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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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Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.
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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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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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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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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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We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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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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