A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
EDWARD DE BONOWhat the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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The vertical thinker says: ‘I know what I am looking for.’ The lateral thinker says: ‘I am looking but I won’t know what I am looking for until I have found it.’
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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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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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