Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
EDWARD DE BONOI do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn’t have the established route to it.
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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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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
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It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.
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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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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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Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.
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The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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