To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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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It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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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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The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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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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What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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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 gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Everyone 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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Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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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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I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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