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.
EDWARD DE BONOA question is a polite way of demanding something.
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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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It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
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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.
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Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
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The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
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A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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