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?
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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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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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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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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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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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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