Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only...

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally...

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

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.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to...

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

When the positive revolution takes hold it will no longer be enough for politicians to gain points through attack or being negative. Politicians will be expected to be constructive.

There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions. (p69)

The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people’s minds.

It is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see something differently, our emotions may alter with the altered perception. (p64)

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

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...

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.