1. “The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.”
2. “Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.”
3. “Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.”
4. “Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.”
5. “Creativity involves breaking out established patters in orders to look at things in a different way.”
6. “Complexity means distracted effort Simplicity means focused effort.”
7. “Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.”
8. “You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction.”
9. “If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.”
10. “The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.”
11. “Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.”
12. “If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.”
13. “If you never change your mind, why have one?.”
14. “You can analyse the past but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.”
15. “The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.”
16. “The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity”
17. “To be successful you have to be lucky, or little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth.”
18. “You can’t dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.”
19. “Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.”
20. “Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.”
21. “The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.”
22. “To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident and enjoyable.”
23. “The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.”
24. “To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.”
25. “Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.”
26. “Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.”
27. “Perception is real even when it is not reality.”
28. “An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
29. “The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.”
30. “Logic will never change emotion or perception.”
