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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 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
Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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Basis Creativity Thinking
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
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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Better Enough Ideas Right Wrong
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
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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Best Definition Expectation Happiness Ourselves Talent
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
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.
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Operational People Science Teaching
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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Gratitude Problem Situation Time Way
Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
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Bad Creativity Doubt Essential Man Need Success
Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.
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Attitude Construction Exception Moments People
This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.
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Dignity Himself Proper System Weakness Wrong
People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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People Realize
The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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Acceptance Concept Logic Rejection Selection Thinking
Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
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Future Thinking Traditional Willing

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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