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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.

Edward de Bono

Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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Creativity Fun Interest Life
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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Logic Mistake Thinking
Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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Simplicity Understand
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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Creativity Doubt Human Resource
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
Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
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Creativity Idea Value
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Mindset Preparation See
Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Creativity Learning Level
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Analysis Design Future Past Yourself
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
Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better.
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Better Goodness Human Resource Thinking Ultimate
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
A question is a polite way of demanding something.
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Demand Polite Question
To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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Confidence Development Enjoyment Skills
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
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
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Car Mistake Production Remove
Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
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Change Error Ideas Leadership Mistake Perception Study
It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
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Enough Lying Replacement Truth
I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn’t have the established route to it.
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Children Deal Establishment Greatness Route Work Young
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
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 me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Faith God Poor
Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.
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Beyond Doubt Improvement Right Sacred Way
Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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One Liner Perception Reality
Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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Creativity Hope Idea Worth
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Complete Memories
Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.
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Creative Empowerment Learning People Production Profit Skills 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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