You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes From R. Buckminster Fuller It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom? R. Buckminster Fuller degrees I'm utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences. R. Buckminster Fuller relevantwellsneeds Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought. R. Buckminster Fuller bedofficetwo You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time. R. Buckminster Fuller support-youageattention To do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing. R. Buckminster Fuller can-do Real wealth is ideas plus energy. R. Buckminster Fuller realinspirationalideas As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry. R. Buckminster Fuller hungryracelong All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups. R. Buckminster Fuller borngeniuschildren Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. R. Buckminster Fuller earthneedsfirsts Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. R. Buckminster Fuller ninety-ninepositivitysoul If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody. R. Buckminster Fuller adequatecareaction To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog. R. Buckminster Fuller politiciandogtails Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. R. Buckminster Fuller litteringignorantbusiness When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually. R. Buckminster Fuller ventureactingpeace The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia. R. Buckminster Fuller motivationalinspirationalworld We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief.... In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding. R. Buckminster Fuller communicationunderstandinghumanity I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem. R. Buckminster Fuller pianomeanthinking There are over 2 million cars standing in front of red lights with their engines going. Then we have over 2 million times approximately 100 horsepower being generated as they are idling there, so that we have something like 200 million horses jumping up and down and going nowhere. Now, we have to count that in our economy when we begin to get down to what is the efficiency of the economy. R. Buckminster Fuller horsejumpinglight Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe. R. Buckminster Fuller finalsracehumanity Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. R. Buckminster Fuller suggestionsknowledgeschool
