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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Television is the third parent.
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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.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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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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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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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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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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