A question is a polite way of demanding something.
EDWARD DE BONOHumor 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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They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don’t acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
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Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.
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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
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The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better.
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The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.
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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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