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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.

Edward de Bono

Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.
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Existence Ideas Immortal Spring
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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Fashion Human Language Progress Way
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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Creativity Fun Interest Life
They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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Creativity Enjoyment Ideas Thinking
Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Complex Distraction Effort Simplicity
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Complete Memories
We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.
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Argument Criticism Design Opportunity Technology Value
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
Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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Brain Change Concept Human Pattern Perception Tolerate
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
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
The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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Image Mindset People Reflection
Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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Creativity Hope Idea Worth
The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Car Drive Power Separate
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
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Activity Brain Human Humor
As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.
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Better Competition Creativity Intense Need Problem Solve
To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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Analysis Deal Future Possible
You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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Design Difference Enjoyment Future Need Past Suffering Yourself
Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
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Change Error Ideas Leadership Mistake Perception Study
There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.
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Dangerous Information Social Media Thinking Yourself
Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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History Poverty Willing Yourself
The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
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God Music Recognition Run
The 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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Finding Philosophy 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
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

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