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You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

Edward de Bono

We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
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Place Problem Remove Solve
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Crowd Opportunity Wait Willing
I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don’t acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
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Dangerous Identity Image People Thinking Young
The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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Comfort Finding Myself Old Problem
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
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
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
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Break Creativity Experience Freedom Need Order Temporary
Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Happiness Live Myself Need
People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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People Realize
Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Born Intelligence Learning Skill Thinking
America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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Country Idea One Liner
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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God Music Recognition Run
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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Development Existence Ideas
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
Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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Devil Run
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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Logic Mistake Thinking

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