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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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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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And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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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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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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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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Initiative 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.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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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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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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