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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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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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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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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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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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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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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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