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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEROnly ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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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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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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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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