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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Edward de Bono

I’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
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Dreams Goal Moments
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
The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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Creativity Focus Powerful Process Simplicity Source
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
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
On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn’t about charity, it’s about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.
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Charity Hypocrisy Idea Justice Stop Trade
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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Employment Teaching Thinking
Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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Creativity Fun Interest Life
Western traditions of education have emphasized knowledge analysis, description and debate. They all have a part to play, but today there is a whole vast aspect of doing that has just been left out. Operacy is what keeps society going.
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Analysis Debate Description Education Society Tradition
The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.
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Comfort Finding Myself Old Problem
Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
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Complex Creation Creativity Focus Simplicity
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Crowd Opportunity Wait Willing
Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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Creativity Ideas Nurture Practice Talent Thinking
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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Discover Ideas Lying Need Opportunity Production
Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Born Intelligence Learning Skill Thinking
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

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