You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
EDWARD DE BONOThe 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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Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
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Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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The vertical thinker says: ‘I know what I am looking for.’ The lateral thinker says: ‘I am looking but I won’t know what I am looking for until I have found it.’
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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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