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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

Edward de Bono

I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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Gratitude Problem Situation Time Way
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 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
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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Best Definition Expectation Happiness Ourselves Talent
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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Assume History Maintain Repeat Valid
The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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Image Mindset People Reflection
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
Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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Creativity Fun Interest Life
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
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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Logic Mistake Thinking
We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
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Place Problem Remove Solve
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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Better Ignorance Moments Oneself Word
I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don’t acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
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Dangerous Identity Image People Thinking Young
Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Born Intelligence Learning Skill Thinking
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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Discover Ideas Lying Need Opportunity Production

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