Warren Berger Quotes

#1. The maker movement is mostly about building things (whether low-tech or high-tech), as well as creating art and music. But it's driven by project-based, peer-to-peer learning, which tends to happen as novice "makers

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#2. If we're born to inquire, then why must it be taught?

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#3. questions challenge authority and disrupt established structures, processes, and systems, forcing people to have to at least think about doing something differently.

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#4. Picasso was onto this truth fifty years ago when he commented, "Computers are useless - they only give31 you answers.

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#5. The main premise of appreciative inquiry is that positive questions, focusing on strengths and assets, tend to yield more effective results than negative questions focusing on problems or deficits.

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#6. You don't learn unless you question.

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#7. Designers can show us a better future, can present us with all kinds of new possibilities so that we can decide: Is this what we want? Before any of that can happen, though, the designer must first commit - by taking what is just a faint glimmer in the mind's eye and giving it shape and life.

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#8. If you can't imagine you could be wrong, what's the point of democracy? And if you can't imagine how or why others think differently, then how could you tolerate democracy?" As

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#9. It's easier to act your way33 into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting.

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#10. We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn't encouraged - it is barely tolerated.

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#11. Death to Core Competency," suggests that whatever a company's specialty product or service might be - whatever got you to where you are today - might not be the thing that gets you to the next level.

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#12. you can't help but feel uncomfortable," because it becomes clear that fear of failure "keeps us from attempting great things . . . and life gets dull. Amazing things stop happening." But if you can get past that fear, Dugan said, "Impossible things suddenly become possible.

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#13. Fear is the enemy of curiosity.

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#14. A beautiful question is an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something - and that might serve as a catalyst to bring about change.

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