Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
EDWARD DE BONOThe quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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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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It is well known that “problem avoidance” is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
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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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The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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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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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
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Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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