Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
EDWARD DE BONOWe 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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You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
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They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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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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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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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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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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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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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
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It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
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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.
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