You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERPeople never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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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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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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Never show unfinished work.
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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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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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