Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
EDWARD DE BONOThe effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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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.
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Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That’s a rate of 7,256 children’s lives saved each day. It drives me nuts that most people don’t seem to know this news.
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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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My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
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Lateral thinking is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.
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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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The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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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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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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You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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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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