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Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.

Edward de Bono

The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Mindset Preparation See
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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Children Deal Establishment Greatness Route Work Young
Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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Basis Creativity Thinking
A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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Demand Polite Question
The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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Arrogant Effect Sin Thinking Treat
Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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Creativity Hope Idea Worth
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Activity Brain Human Humor
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
The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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Comfort Finding Myself Old Problem
What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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Change Display Important Joke Perception Thinking
The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.
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Absorb Art Perception Purpose Reflection Value
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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Beyond Doubt Improvement Right Sacred Way
The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
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Chance Company Insurance Solid Wealth
Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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Better Criticism Oneself
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
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Attention Change Humor Mindset Paid Philosophy Reason Surprise
This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.
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Dignity Himself Proper System Weakness Wrong

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