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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.

Edward de Bono

Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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Creativity Greatness Interest Motivational People
You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people’s hearts, and that’s hard enough.
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Enough Hard Heart Hold People Religion Rule Tradition
The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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Determination Future Ourselves Quality Thinking
The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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Creativity Focus Powerful Process Simplicity Source
My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
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Fight Lesson Listening Teaching Thinking Time
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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Gratitude Problem Situation Time Way
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
A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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Demand Polite Question
Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Happiness Live Myself Need
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
Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
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Bad Creativity Doubt Essential Man Need Success
The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Car Drive Power Separate
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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Discover Ideas Lying Need Opportunity Production
Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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One Liner Perception Reality
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
The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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Analysis Data Ideas Production

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