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Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.

Edward de Bono

Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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Change Emotion Logic Perception
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Complete Memories
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
Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Achievement Creativity Possible
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Analysis Design Future Past Yourself
The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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Best Chef Ingredient Result Win
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Ideas Need Right Time
Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
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Cheap Human Humor Mindset Reason
Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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Creativity Greatness Interest Motivational People
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
We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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Design Judgement Seek
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
It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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Amazing Attention Humor Pay
People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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People Realize
Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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Play Possible Progress Thinking
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Mindset Preparation See

Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.

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Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.

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