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.
EDWARD DE BONOThey enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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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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A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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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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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.
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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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