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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.

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To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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Confidence Development Enjoyment Skills
Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Creativity Learning Level
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Drive Intelligence People Poor 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
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Design Future Yourself
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
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
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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Aspect Creativity Important Motivational Powerful Source Willing
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
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
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Creativity Doubt Forever Human Important Progress Repeat Resource
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
America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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Country Idea One Liner
Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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Creativity Fun Interest Life
Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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Basis Creativity Thinking
Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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Effect Purpose Tools Value
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Crowd Opportunity Wait Willing
To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Faith God Poor
The vertical thinker says: ‘I know what I am looking for.’ The lateral thinker says: ‘I am looking but I won’t know what I am looking for until I have found it.’
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Finding Philosophy Thinking
Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better.
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Better Goodness Human Resource Thinking Ultimate
You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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Direction Hard Yourself
Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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One Liner Perception Reality
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
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Mindset Preparation See
What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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Change Display Important Joke Perception Thinking
Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
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Focus Important Question Simplicity Way
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Analysis Design Future Past Yourself
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.
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Creativity Doubt Human Resource

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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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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