The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.
We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.
What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.
Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.
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.
The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future
(...) 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.
To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.
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.
We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.
Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
Logic will never change emotion or perception.
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