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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.

Edward de Bono

Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That’s a rate of 7,256 children’s lives saved each day. It drives me nuts that most people don’t seem to know this news.
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Children Live News People
My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
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Fight Lesson Listening Teaching Thinking Time
You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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Different Hole Place Yourself
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
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
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
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
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Design Future Yourself
A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Democracy Goodness One Liner
Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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One Liner Perception Reality
You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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Design Difference Enjoyment Future Need Past Suffering Yourself
To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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Confidence Development Enjoyment Skills
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Mindset Preparation See
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
Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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Change Emotion Logic Perception
Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.
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Existence Ideas Immortal Spring

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