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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

Edward de Bono

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
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Break Creativity Experience Freedom Need Order Temporary
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
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Attention Change Humor Mindset Paid Philosophy Reason Surprise
You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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Different Hole Oneself
Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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One Liner Perception Reality
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
A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
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Character Discover Ideas Intuition Solution
Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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Effect Purpose Tools Value
Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination – so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
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Arrival Destination Social Truth Value
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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Creativity Different Establishment Order Pattern Way
Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.
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Operational People Science Teaching
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Crowd Opportunity Wait Willing
Humor 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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Cheap Human Humor Mindset Reason
Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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Creativity Fun Interest Life
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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Employment Teaching Thinking
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
The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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Image Mindset People Reflection

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

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