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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.

Edward de Bono

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
Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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Play Possible Progress Thinking
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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Employment Teaching Thinking
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
Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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One Liner Perception Reality
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
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
Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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Basis Creativity Thinking
Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
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Creativity Idea Value
Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.
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Attitude Construction Exception Moments People
Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Analysis Believe Business Data Executive Ideas Mindset Perspective Science Wrong
What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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Important Urgent
People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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People Realize
Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.
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Beyond Doubt Improvement Right Sacred Way
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
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

I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.

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