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I 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.

Edward de Bono

Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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Creativity Hope Idea Worth
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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Focus Important Question Simplicity Way
The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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Image Mindset People Reflection
A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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Demand Polite Question
Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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Creativity Greatness Interest Motivational People
Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
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Bad Creativity Doubt Essential Man Need Success
Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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Basis Creativity Thinking
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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Imagination Story Time Writing
To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Faith God Poor
If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Change Mindset Oneself Yourself
Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
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Change Error Ideas Leadership Mistake Perception Study
You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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Different Hole Place Yourself
What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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Important Urgent
Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Creativity Learning Level
To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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Analysis Deal Future Possible
The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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Determination Future Ourselves Quality Thinking
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.
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Attention Deal Mental Energy Necessary Simplicity Time
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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Analysis Believe Business Data Executive Ideas Mindset Perspective Science Wrong
Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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One Liner Perception Reality
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
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Destroy Evidence Support Way World
In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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Aesthetic Art Criteria Emotional Expression Reason World
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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Better Ignorance Moments Oneself Word
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 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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Count Defend Enough Innovation People System
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
Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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Play Possible Progress Thinking
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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Cheap Human Humor Mindset Reason

I 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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