A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERDwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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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 you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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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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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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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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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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