Our power is in our ability to decide. R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes From R. Buckminster Fuller The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love. R. Buckminster Fuller integration and-love life Integrity is the essence of everything successful. R. Buckminster Fuller success integrity inspirational Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. R. Buckminster Fuller nature doe trying If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference. R. Buckminster Fuller differences humanity integrity I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity R. Buckminster Fuller newborn-child children years It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics. R. Buckminster Fuller reading humanity book I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless. R. Buckminster Fuller conformity creativity integrity Either war is obsolete, or men are. R. Buckminster Fuller veterans-day military peace How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else. R. Buckminster Fuller journey somewhere-else life Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune. R. Buckminster Fuller four boards earth I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented. R. Buckminster Fuller technology waiting men You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes. R. Buckminster Fuller mistake success sports Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter. R. Buckminster Fuller practice matter ideas Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error. R. Buckminster Fuller truth-is progressive errors My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted. R. Buckminster Fuller emergencies enough ideas Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living. R. Buckminster Fuller planets humans thinking Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner. R. Buckminster Fuller psychological fashion together Universe to each must be R. Buckminster Fuller including turns environment Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision. R. Buckminster Fuller blind-spots men believe 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. R. Buckminster Fuller things-to-do done needs