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A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.

Edward de Bono

If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Change Mindset Oneself Yourself
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Complete Memories
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
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Activity Brain Human Humor
In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
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Future Possible Preparation Strive
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
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
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Better Ignorance Moments Oneself Word
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 can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Creativity Learning Level
There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.
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Dangerous Information Social Media Thinking Yourself
In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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Aesthetic Art Criteria Emotional Expression Reason World
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
Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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Analysis Believe Business Data Executive Ideas Mindset Perspective Science Wrong
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
I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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Heart Hurt Known Myself Pain Walk
Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Complex Distraction Effort Simplicity

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