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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

Edward de Bono

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
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
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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Creativity Doubt Human Resource
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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Allow Analysis Description Purpose Science
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
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
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Design Future Yourself
Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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Creativity Fun Interest Life
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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Argument Criticism Design Opportunity Technology Value
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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Best Definition Expectation Happiness Ourselves Talent
I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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Heart Hurt Known Myself Pain Walk
The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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Creativity Focus Powerful Process Simplicity Source
Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Complex Distraction Effort Simplicity
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Crowd Opportunity Wait Willing
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
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
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Feild Growth Mad Success Talent

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

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