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.
EDWARD DE BONOIt is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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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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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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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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To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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I’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
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Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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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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Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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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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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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