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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Edward de Bono

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
It’s not enough to rage against the lie.. you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
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Enough Lying Replacement Truth
Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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One Liner Perception Reality
Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
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Effect Purpose Tools Value
To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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Confidence Development Enjoyment Skills
If you never change your mind, why have one?
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Change Mindset Oneself Yourself
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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Best Definition Expectation Happiness Ourselves Talent
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
There’s a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don’t have to think, you just have to get more information – gets very dangerous.
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Dangerous Information Social Media Thinking Yourself
Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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Basis Creativity Thinking
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
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Feild Growth Mad Success Talent
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
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
What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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Important Urgent
To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Faith God Poor
Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
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Simplicity Understand

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

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