Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERYou cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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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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The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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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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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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