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Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.

Edward de Bono

My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
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Fight Lesson Listening Teaching Thinking Time
Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
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Change Error Ideas Leadership Mistake Perception Study
Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Argument Creation Reveal Truth Yourself
I’m a very loyal and unreliable friend.
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Friendship Loyalty Myself
We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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Design Judgement Seek
To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Faith God Poor
Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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Creativity Learning Level
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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Beyond Doubt Improvement Right Sacred Way
Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
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Born Intelligence Learning Skill Thinking
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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Design Future Yourself
Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
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Devil Run
Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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Achievement Creativity Possible
I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don’t acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
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Dangerous Identity Image People Thinking Young
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
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
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Complete Memories

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