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"Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits."
"Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven."
"Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain."
"There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns."
"Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists."
"A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen."
"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."
"Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive."
"The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results."
"Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic."
"If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd."
"Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned."
"You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it."
"Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking."
"If you never change your mind, why have one?"
"(...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you are ever wrong, because you are defending not the idea but your self-esteem. (...) this terror of being wrong means that people have enormous difficulties in changing ideas."
"Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it."
"If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you."
"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."
"One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity."