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

Edward de Bono

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
What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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Important Urgent
Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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Creativity Fun Interest Life
Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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Creativity Greatness Interest Motivational People
I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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Friendship Loyalty Myself
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
Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
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Focus Important Question Simplicity Way
I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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Heart Hurt Known Myself Pain Walk
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
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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Creativity Ideas Nurture Practice Talent 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
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
The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Car Drive Power Separate
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Design Future Yourself
Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Analysis Believe Business Data Executive Ideas Mindset Perspective Science Wrong
The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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Comfort Finding Myself Old Problem

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