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You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people’s hearts, and that’s hard enough.

Edward de Bono

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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Image Mindset People Reflection
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Ideas Need Right Time
You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people’s hearts, and that’s hard enough.
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Enough Hard Heart Hold People Religion Rule Tradition
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
Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
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Brain Change Concept Human Pattern Perception Tolerate
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
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
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
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Mindset Preparation See
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
Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Creativity Learning Level
To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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Analysis Deal Future Possible
If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Change Mindset Oneself Yourself
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
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
Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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Effect Purpose Tools Value

You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people’s hearts, and that’s hard enough.

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