It is well known that “problem avoidance” is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
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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.
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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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Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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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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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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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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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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Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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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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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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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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Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
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