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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.

Edward de Bono

As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.
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Better Competition Creativity Intense Need Problem Solve
To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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Analysis Deal Future Possible
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
America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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Country Idea One Liner
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
This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.
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Dignity Himself Proper System Weakness Wrong
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Ideas Need Right Time
Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
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Change Error Ideas Leadership Mistake Perception Study
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
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
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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Logic Mistake Thinking
Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
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Company Competition Death Focus Thrive Ultimate
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Argument Creation Reveal Truth Yourself
Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
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Analysis Debate Description Education Society Tradition
To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Faith God Poor
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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Assume History Maintain Repeat Valid

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