The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWhen I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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Never show unfinished work.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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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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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Above 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.
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If 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.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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