Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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Television is the third parent.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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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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And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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