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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.

Edward de Bono

You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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Different Hole Place Yourself
Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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Basis Creativity Thinking
Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Achievement Creativity Possible
It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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Amazing Attention Humor Pay
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
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
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
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Feild Growth Mad Success Talent
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
There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.
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Dangerous Information Social Media Thinking Yourself
Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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Brain Change Concept Human Pattern Perception Tolerate
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
People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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People Realize
We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.
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Better Improvement Perfection Problem Solve Way
You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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Different Hole Oneself
To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Faith God Poor
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

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