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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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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Achievement Creativity Possible
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
Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Creativity Learning Level
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
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching 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 image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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Image Mindset People Reflection
We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.
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Information Need Substitute Thinking
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Ideas Need Right Time
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
To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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Confidence Development Enjoyment Skills
What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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Important Urgent
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
The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Car Drive Power Separate
The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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Aware Awful Yourself
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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Employment Teaching Thinking

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