Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough...
We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.
Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
It is well known that “problem avoidance” is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.
What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.
To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.
Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when they are passed on to a loved one.
The Internet is a bright spot for our struggling economy and functioning just fine without what amounts to a federal pat-down of the inner workings of the Internet.
For years, my colleagues and I – primarily Republicans but also some Democrats – have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress.
I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.
Put your ego aside and play as a team.
Don’t cling to fame. You’re just borrowing it. It’s like money. You’re going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.