#red

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 taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#bothered #creativity #else #focusing #granted

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#columbus #discover #discovered #new #only

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#creeps #go #go away #love #other

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#beyond #consciousness #does #extraordinary #go

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#america #arts #attribute #brave #brave new world

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#analyze #belief #believe #business #business school

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#appropriate #be prepared #cannot #cost #deal

We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class. ↗

— Cory Booker

#bedrock #choose #class #economic #empowered

We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending. ↗

— Cory Booker

#also #avarice #calls #common #common sense

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. ↗

— George Boole

#beyond #commendation #does #faculties #high