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To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

Edward de Bono

To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
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Analysis Deal Future Possible
To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Faith God Poor
Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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Play Possible Progress Thinking
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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Attention Expert Ignorance Judgement Pay Success
What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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Change Display Important Joke Perception Thinking
Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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Creativity Fun Interest Life
I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.
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Heart Hurt Known Myself Pain Walk
Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
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Future Thinking Traditional Willing
Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
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Focus Important Question Simplicity Way
Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
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Complex Distraction Effort Simplicity
It is well known that “problem avoidance” is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
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Avoidance Important Place Problem System
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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Attraction Beautiful Goodness Listening Love Yourself
In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
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Future Possible Preparation Strive
Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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Creativity Greatness Interest Motivational People
Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
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Enough Excellence Existence Habit Thinking

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