The 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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERYou cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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You can’t learn less.
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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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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.
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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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