Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
EDWARD DE BONOEveryone 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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We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
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To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.
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I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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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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Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better.
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In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
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What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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