Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
– Edward de Bono
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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. – Edward de Bono
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- Beauty is more a danger than intelligence or wit. One becomes a living mirror for the inadequacies of others. – Gordon Dahlquist
- History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation. – Julian Barnes
- Our children cannot be assumed to follow in our footsteps, assuage our losses, or compensate for our inadequacies. – Madeline Levine
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- Much of modern life is based upon a false logic, a logic that assumes that happiness and well-being come from financial prosperity. – Nic Marks
- I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being–forgive me–rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger. – JK Rowling
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- Think, dream and expect great things. For would you rather be correct in your perception? Or would you rather be exceptional in your life? – Christopher Babson
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- We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. – Gene Roddenberry
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- Magic was merely the unknown, a wild thing undefined by logic or reason. By that thinking, surely she was not Bad Luck, but Good, undefined. – JD Lakey
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- Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid. – Bono
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- Music can change the world because it can change people. – Bono
- One Life, with each other, Sisters, Brothers… – Bono
- ISIS and these kinds of extremists are a death cult. We’re a life cult. Rock ‘n’ roll is a life force, and it’s joy as an act of defiance. – Bono
- Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die. – Bono
- Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die. – Bono
- Religion to me almost like when God leaves -“ and people devise a set of rules to fill in the space. – Bono
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- I believe history is a circle, made by men who don’t learn from their mistakes. – Edward Hogan
- You learn from mistakes so the best leaders are constantly making new mistakes on their success journey. – Orrin Woodward
- Just don’t be afraid of your mistakes because those mistakes can be the best way how to learn to do it right. – Pteris Bitns
- We made mistakes learnt from them not to repeat it again. But some mistakes are made repeatedly but we feel helpless after doing it… – Debolina Bhawal