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Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.

Edward de Bono

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
Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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Creativity Fun Interest Life
You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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Direction Hard Yourself
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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Count Defend Enough Innovation People System
A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
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Attraction Beautiful Goodness Listening Love Yourself
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Design Future Yourself
Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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Enough Excellence Existence Habit Thinking
The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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Arrogant Effect Sin Thinking Treat
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
Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Complex Distraction Effort Simplicity
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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Assume History Maintain Repeat Valid
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
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Destroy Evidence Support Way World
Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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Creativity Ideas Nurture Practice Talent Thinking
The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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Creativity Focus Powerful Process Simplicity Source
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Ideas Need Right Time
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Argument Creation Reveal Truth Yourself

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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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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