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.
EDWARD DE BONOUnhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
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Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.
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Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
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Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
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What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
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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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A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
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Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
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You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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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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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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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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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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