Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
EDWARD DE BONOAsking 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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A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
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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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It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
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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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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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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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