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Edward de Bono

The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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Acceptance Concept Logic Rejection Selection Thinking
Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Happiness Live Myself Need
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
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Argument Creation Reveal Truth Yourself
Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Born Intelligence Learning Skill Thinking
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
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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Creativity Different Establishment Order Pattern Way
Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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History Poverty Willing Yourself
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
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Break Creativity Experience Freedom Need Order Temporary
Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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Enough Excellence Existence Habit Thinking
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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Development Existence Ideas
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
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
In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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Aesthetic Art Criteria Emotional Expression Reason World
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Design Future 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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Car Mistake Production Remove

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