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Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.

Edward de Bono

If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Change Mindset Oneself Yourself
Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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Basis Creativity Thinking
The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
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God Music Recognition Run
Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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Change Emotion Logic Perception
The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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Aware Awful Yourself
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
The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Car Drive Power Separate
Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Creativity Learning Level
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Mindset Preparation See
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
Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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Simplicity Understand
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
I’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
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Dreams Goal Moments
The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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Acceptance Concept Logic Rejection Selection Thinking
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
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Action Problem Situation Time Way
Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination – so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
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Arrival Destination Social Truth Value

Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.

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Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.

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