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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
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
Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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One Liner Perception Reality
We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
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Place Problem Remove Solve
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
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Attention Change Humor Mindset Paid Philosophy Reason Surprise
You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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Different Hole Place Yourself
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Crowd Opportunity Wait Willing
Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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Play Possible Progress Thinking
Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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Better Criticism Oneself
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
In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
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Future Possible Preparation Strive
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
It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
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Enough Lying Replacement Truth
Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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Basis Creativity Thinking
Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination – so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
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Arrival Destination Social Truth Value
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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