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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.

Edward de Bono

Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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Play Possible Progress Thinking
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
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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Employment Teaching Thinking
Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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Devil Run
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Analysis Design Future Past Yourself
You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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Design Difference Enjoyment Future Need Past Suffering Yourself
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Mindset Preparation See
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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Place Problem Remove Solve
Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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One Liner Perception Reality
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.
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Better Competition Creativity Intense Need Problem Solve
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
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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Children Live News People
What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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Important Urgent
Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.
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Operational People Science Teaching
Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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Complex Creation Creativity Focus Simplicity

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