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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

Edward de Bono

Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.
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Operational People Science Teaching
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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Discover Ideas Lying Need Opportunity Production
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
Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.
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Beyond Doubt Improvement Right Sacred Way
Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Achievement Creativity Possible
The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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Acceptance Concept Logic Rejection Selection Thinking
Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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Enough Excellence Existence Habit Thinking
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.
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Attraction Beautiful Goodness Listening Love Yourself
Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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History Poverty Willing Yourself
You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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Direction Hard Yourself
The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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Image Mindset People Reflection
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
The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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Aware Awful Yourself
Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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Effect Purpose Tools Value
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Mindset Preparation See
Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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Creativity Fun Interest Life

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

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