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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

Edward de Bono

You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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Direction Hard Yourself
We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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Design Judgement Seek
The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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Analysis Data Ideas Production
My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
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Fight Lesson Listening Teaching Thinking Time
The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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Aware Awful Yourself
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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Demand Polite Question
Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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Brain Change Concept Human Pattern Perception Tolerate
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
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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Break Creativity Experience Freedom Need Order Temporary
Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Complex Distraction Effort Simplicity
Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Creativity Learning Level
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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Imagination Story Time Writing
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Design Future Yourself
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Activity Brain Human Humor
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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Future Possible Preparation Strive

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