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To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.
Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.
Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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.
Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.
Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.
They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic.
Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
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.
Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.
You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.
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.
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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.
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.
We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.
The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.
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.
Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
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.