Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHow often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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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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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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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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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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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.
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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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