I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.


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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more ...
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One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one...
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas...
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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model...
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Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produc...
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely not happen.
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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
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It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually ...
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To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapi...
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In 80% of Socrates' dialogues there was no constructive outcome. He saw his role as simply pointing ...
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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 wit...
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I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acqu...
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There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that m...
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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an ...
EDWARD DE BONO
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
EDWARD DE BONO