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

Edward de Bono

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
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
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
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
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Analysis Design Future Past Yourself
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Complete Memories
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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God Music Recognition Run
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Activity Brain Human Humor
Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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Effect Purpose Tools Value
A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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Demand Polite Question
Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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Creativity Hope Idea Worth
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Drive Intelligence People Poor Thinking
I’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
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Dreams Goal Moments
Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
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Creativity Idea Value
The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.
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Absorb Art Perception Purpose Reflection Value
Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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One Liner Perception Reality

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