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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

Edward de Bono

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
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Car Mistake Production Remove
In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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Aesthetic Art Criteria Emotional Expression Reason World
Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
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Cheap Human Humor Mindset Reason
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
Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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Creativity Ideas Nurture Practice Talent Thinking
A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
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Attraction Beautiful Goodness Listening Love Yourself
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Activity Brain Human Humor
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Ideas Need Right Time
Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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Complex Creation Creativity Focus Simplicity
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Crowd Opportunity Wait Willing
To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Faith God Poor
A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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Character Discover Ideas Intuition Solution
If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Change Mindset Oneself Yourself
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
The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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Arrogant Effect Sin Thinking Treat
The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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Determination Future Ourselves Quality Thinking

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