Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
EDWARD DE BONOThe 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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Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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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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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
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The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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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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The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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