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We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.

Edward de Bono

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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Development Existence Ideas
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
The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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Aware Awful Yourself
We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.
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Information Need Substitute Thinking
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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Design Difference Enjoyment Future Need Past Suffering Yourself
To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Faith God Poor
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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Fashion Human Language Progress Way
Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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Creativity Greatness Interest Motivational People
As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.
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Better Competition Creativity Intense Need Problem Solve
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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Logic Mistake Thinking
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Analysis Design Future Past Yourself
Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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Creativity Hope Idea Worth
The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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Image Mindset People Reflection
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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Assume History Maintain Repeat Valid
Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Happiness Live Myself Need
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
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Car Mistake Production Remove

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