"Logic will never change emotion or perception."
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"Perception is real even when it is not reality."
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"Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car."
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"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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"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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"Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus."
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"Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting."
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"Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone."
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"Unfortunately, our existing traditional thinking habits insist that you must attack something and show it to be bad before you can suggest a change. It is more difficult to acknowledge that something is excellent and then to ask for change because although it is excellent, it is not enough."
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"Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea."
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"The mind can only see what it is prepared to see."
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"Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that."
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"In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures."
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"There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all."
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"The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future"
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"We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information."
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"To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field."
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"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"
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"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."
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"A good design is not a democratic consensus."
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