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Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

Edward de Bono

I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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Education School Teaching Thinking
The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
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Count Defend Enough Innovation People System
Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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Creativity Ideas Nurture Practice Talent Thinking
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
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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Attention Expert Ignorance Judgement Pay Success
Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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Creativity Fun Interest Life
Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
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Play Possible Progress Thinking
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Crowd Opportunity Wait Willing
Perception is real even when it is not reality.
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One Liner Perception Reality
We still seek to solve conflicts with ‘judgement’ instead of designing the way forwards.
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Design Judgement Seek
They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
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Creativity Enjoyment Ideas Thinking
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
To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor it’s nothing.
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Faith God Poor
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
What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
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Important Urgent
Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway – we just disguise them as logic.
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Business Discussion Feeling Logic

Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

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