Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAbove all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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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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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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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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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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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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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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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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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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