Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
EDWARD DE BONOThe concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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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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To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination – so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
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To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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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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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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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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