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It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.

Edward de Bono

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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Better Enough Ideas Right Wrong
The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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Image Mindset People Reflection
Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
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Analysis Debate Description Education Society Tradition
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
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
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Action Problem Situation Time Way
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
Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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Effect Purpose Tools Value
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
The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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Arrogant Effect Sin Thinking Treat
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Ideas Need Right Time
The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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Determination Future Ourselves Quality Thinking
Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That’s a rate of 7,256 children’s lives saved each day. It drives me nuts that most people don’t seem to know this news.
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Children Live News People
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
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
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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God Music Recognition Run
A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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Demand Polite Question

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