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There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.

Edward de Bono

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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Logic Mistake Thinking
The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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Best Chef Ingredient Result Win
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
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Feild Growth Mad Success Talent
I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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Heart Hurt Known Myself Pain Walk
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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Count Defend Enough Innovation People System
When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.
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Imagination Story Time Writing
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
We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.
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Better Improvement Perfection Problem Solve Way
Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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Play Possible Progress Thinking
Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
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Company Competition Death Focus Thrive Ultimate
The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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Creativity Focus Powerful Process Simplicity Source
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
If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Change Mindset Oneself Yourself
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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Aspect Creativity Important Motivational Powerful Source Willing
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
Lateral thinking is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.
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Creativity Information Mathematics Process Thinking

There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.

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There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.

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