You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERInitiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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I look for what needs to be done
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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