Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

Analysis is simplifying, breaking down things into parts, picking out strands and elements. Analysis is comparing unknown things with things that are known. Analysis also involves picking out relationships and putting them back together as a whole.

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

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.

Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.

You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper.