The better the actor, the more stupid he is.
You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future
Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.
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.
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 forever repeating the same patterns.
You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.
We need to give people more of an incentive to work, to save, to invest, to create a true future for themselves.
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