If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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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.
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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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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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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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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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Never show unfinished work.
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It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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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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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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I look for what needs to be done
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