The 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.
EDWARD DE BONOThe power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.
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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.
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A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Do we have the will to make poverty history?
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To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway – we just disguise them as logic.
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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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