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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

Edward de Bono

Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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Creativity Greatness Interest Motivational People
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Argument Creation Reveal Truth Yourself
Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
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Better Criticism Oneself
To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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Analysis Deal Future Possible
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
If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Change Mindset Oneself Yourself
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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Better Enough Ideas Right Wrong
I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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Friendship Loyalty Myself
We 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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Argument Criticism Design Opportunity Technology Value
You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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Direction Hard Yourself
The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Car Drive Power Separate
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Design Future Yourself
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Analysis Design Future Past Yourself
What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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Important Urgent
You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people’s hearts, and that’s hard enough.
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Enough Hard Heart Hold People Religion Rule Tradition
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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Attention Change Humor Mindset Paid Philosophy Reason Surprise

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