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

Edward de Bono

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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Analysis Debate Description Education Society Tradition
We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
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Place Problem Remove Solve
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
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
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Ideas Need Right Time
The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.
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Image Mindset People Reflection
America is not just a country, it’s an idea.
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Country Idea One Liner
A good design is not a democratic consensus.
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Democracy Goodness One Liner
Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
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Bad Creativity Doubt Essential Man Need Success
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.
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Acceptance Concept Logic Rejection Selection Thinking
The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking.
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Arrogant Effect Sin Thinking Treat
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
The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Car Drive Power Separate
Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
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Company Competition Death Focus Thrive Ultimate
To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Faith God Poor
If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Change Mindset Oneself Yourself
You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people’s hearts, and that’s hard enough.
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Enough Hard Heart Hold People Religion Rule Tradition
People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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People Realize
Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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Basis Creativity Thinking
Happiness is for those who don’t really need it. So I can live without happiness.
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Happiness Live Myself Need
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Design Future Yourself
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
I’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
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Dreams Goal Moments
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
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Creativity Focus Powerful Process Simplicity Source
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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Development Existence Ideas
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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Best Definition Expectation Happiness Ourselves Talent
The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
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God Music Recognition Run

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