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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…
- The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
- Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
- A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the…
- There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all...
- They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
- Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
- (...) being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied…
- It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
- You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is…
- 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…
- The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle