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It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.
Best Employed Everything Fully
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In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.

Conduct Natural Nature Science
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Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

Creativity Drive Emotions Never
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One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.

About Education Great Less
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The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture.
Advances Cross Culture Disciplines
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Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty.

Barely Controlled Diseases How
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I've been a minimalist my whole life, even if you wouldn't know it from my office.
Been Even Know Life
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Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.
Blown Day Everyone Mind
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Most gravity has no known origin. Is it some exotic particle? Nobody knows. Is dark energy responsible for expansion of the universe? Nobody knows.

Dark Energy Exotic Expansion
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The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument.

Argument Driver Economic Only
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Memory Left Happens Completely
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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Creativity Breaking Different way
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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.

Situation Problem Certain Exist
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We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

Creativity Temporary Structures
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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.

Executives Scientist Business school Believe
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Mistakes Inadequacies Perception Logic
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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

Opportunity Lie Ideas Produced
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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.
Purpose Science Useful World
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

Argument Reveal Create
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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.

Motivation Willingness Stop
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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.

Surprised Attention Philosophers Humor
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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.

Future Striving Flexible Plural
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
Opportunities Occur Crowd
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

Complexity Inefficient Mental energy
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Humor Significant Activity Human brain
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

Need Right Biggest Bar
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Unhappiness Difference Talent Expectations
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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.

Successful Mad Talent Rapid growth
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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.

Intelligent people Thinker Average Skilled
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Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practiced and nurtured.

Creative thinking Mystical Skill
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
School Place Thinking Taught
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

Teaching Unemployed youngsters
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I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

Great deal Children Problem Original solution
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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.

Humor Characteristic Human mind
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A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

Painter World Craftsman People
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Education is a liberator – the education of one person has the power to change outcomes in a village. Educated people who are successful make success accessible in unlikely neighborhoods.

Education Liberator Person Power
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Our mindset every day is a battle. If we have an inclusive culture everyone will be able to perform at their best,

Mindset Battle Inclusive Culture
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Equality is good for the economy, good for the community and good for our daughters. Having an equal society isn’t simply a favour towards women, and we need to have men alongside us fighting for equality.

Equality Economy Community Daughters
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In business and life, you have to work hard, you have to have integrity and you have to choose your partners carefully.

Business Life Work Integrity
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If you stick to stereotypes about who can lead, you will have a very mediocre leadership.

Stick Stereotypes Lead Mediocre leadership
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The only way out of poverty is through quality education. Any self-respecting country has to be able to educate its poor, and this includes comprehensive free higher education for academically deserving students.

Poverty Quality Education Country
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I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per say, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

Almost Creature Earth Internet
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

Activities Anything Everything Learned
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Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

Devil Energy Form God
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Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

Apathy Applying Doubt Fear
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There are no ordinary moments.
Moments Ordinary
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Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

Dark Faith Feeling Guide
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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Act Feel Happy Love
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Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.

Never Power Say Someone
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.

Body Cells Ever Everything
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