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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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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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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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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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Television is the third parent.
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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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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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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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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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