FastSaying

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.


R. Buckminster Fuller

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Buckminster Fuller was one of those world historic geniuses who reminded us of the extraordinary thi...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a...
NORA SAKAVIC We don't know all the truth! We only know all the lies!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll b...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON His presence was stirring heat in all the wrong places and for all the wrong reasons.
JUSTINE DELL Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better.
LYNDA HERNANDEZ The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLAS I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.
KEANU REEVES Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their...
EILEEN CADDY The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.
JENNIFER NIVEN If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art...
ANSARI No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty ...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices.
J. PETIT-SENN You can say that you dont care what anyone thinks about you, but in the end, its all that really mat...
TIFFANY GARLAND Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us f...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I have never been contained except I made the prison.
MARY EVANS The only thing I leave alone is the ceiling, because white contains all the wavelengths of the visib...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES I don’t need to worry that Finch and I never filmed our wanderings. It’s okay that we didn’t c...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES The Nest Houses aren’t there. It’s dark by the time I stop in downtown New Harmony, with its bri...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES Right now, he crosses his arms and frowns at me.

“Is it true you almost drowned Roamer...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES It’s okay to laugh, you know. The earth’s not going to split open. You’re not going to hell. B...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES The thing is, there are good days and bad days. I feel almost guilty saying they aren't all bad.
JENNIFER NIVEN You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.
JENNIFER NEVIN If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever." There was nothing to make him...
JENNIFER NIVEN I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN What is the most common investor mistake? Trading - getting in and getting out at all the wrong time...
KENNETH FISHER The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.
JENNIFER NIVEN Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. All's well that carries on well
AMIT ABRAHAM I walk through the black Indiana night, under a ceiling of stars, and think about the phrase "elegan...
JENNIFER NIVEN There are Reasons behind all Decisions.
JAIME TENORIO VALENZUELA If you think there is something wrong with Bipolar People you might want to Google the Famous Bipola...
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH I hate you for the right reasons but loved you for the wrong reasons, everything happens for a reaso...
YOUNG BEEZY You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrai...
HOPE MIRRLEES Confident posture gets you noticed for all the right reasons.
CINDY ANN PETERSON All for all, always.
MARTHA N. BECK Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can'...
BERNARD BARUCH This is Long Island, land of the rushed, home of the stressed.
WILL BLY Everybody would like to be remembered, the catch is do you want to be remembered for all the wrong r...
GARY F EVANS... The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.
JENNIFER NIVEN Lovely is a lovely word that should be used more often.
JENNIFER NIVEN If a song's meant to stay around, you carry it with you in your bones.
JENNIFER NIVEN Every tragedy has a reason.
ADNAN BAHATTI It's been done in all the right spirit. The people who put this thing together did it for all the ri...
BOZ SCAGGS Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and vill...
DAN BROWN It's no secret, we took a lot of sh-- for Ang Lee's 'Hulk,' for all the wrong reasons,
AVI ARAD You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from th...
NORTON JUSTER He said he just didn't want to play. He was out there for all the wrong reasons.
HANK TIERNEY Technology, the Law of Equation and the English Language all have one shortfall, that even school te...
APURVA GAGLANI Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be...
HOWARD ZINN All of the bands were good and everyone was there for the right reasons.
BOB SNYDER You become very known for being someone's girlfriend, and all of a sudden there's all this h...
SIENNA MILLER We all have different perspectives on life. We all do take different decisions in life each day base...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We all have different perspectives to life. We all do take different decisions in life each day base...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He thought much but said little.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... no...
DIANE PAULUS Too often, we love for the wrong reasons, when we think the right one comes along.
ANTHONY LICCIONE People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.
BERNIE SANDERS You must never feel badly about making mistakes, explained Reason quietly, as long as you take the t...
NORTON JUSTER The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.
JENNIFER NIVEN The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. Every...
JENNIFER NIVEN True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter.
JOHN GREEN She was so mean that she even killed her own name, and now people just pointed to her.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I is the hardest word to define.
JOHN GREEN Break hearts, not promises.
JOHN GREEN Our trade opens to all the world.
EZRA STILES Even when apologising, this guy turns on the charm. And the worst thing is that it works.
She h...
GUILLAUME MUSSO Josephine caught my eye and gave me a signal we'd used for years to indicate that one of us had to l...
LEMONY SNICKET Everyone knows what it's like to make the wrong decision for the right reasons. For me, wrong de...
MARK WAID All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that yo...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA That's a lot like saying the Empire State Building is the tallest building in New York, ... It's tru...
BRIAN WILLIAMS Why is it that we are constantly proving the world wrong but never proving ourselves right?
GIRL234 What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capi...
DAN FARMER There is six billion reasons for everything to go wrong and only one to get it right
JULIO DAVILA Winning our fans' approval will come from all of us doing the right things for the right reasons...
RANDY LERNER It is the fact that we are all different is that which makes us all the same.
JAIME CONTRERAS It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Though he walked and breathed, and about him living leaves and flowers were stirred by the same cool...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Let go! Gollum,' he said. 'This is Sting. You have seen it before once upon a time. Let go, or you'l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Frodo gave a cry, and there he was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge. But Gollum, dancing l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The fastest way to kill competition is by acquiring all competitors.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When all are wrong, everyone is right.
LA LEHAUSSEE When all are wrong, everyone is right.
EDWARD KOCH Don't do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It is the "why" that keeps us committed to our choic...
SHANNON L. ALDER Sometimes you do things for the right reasons and sometimes for the wrong ones and sometimes it’s ...
NICOLA YOON I think sometimes there is no right thing.
ROSAMUND HODGE Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can a...
RAMEZ NAAM You take after Bilbo,' said Gandalf. 'There is more about you than meets the eye, as I said of him l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The p...
MARY BALOGH We all have different perspectives on life. We all do take different decisions in life each day base...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Because it's not a lie if it's how you feel.
JENNIFER NIVEN We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looki...
JOHN GREEN You are driving me crazy. You have been driving me crazy for weeks.
JENNIFER NIVEN You saved my life. Why couldn't I save yours?
JENNIFER NIVEN Adults think they're wielding power, but really power is wielding them
JOHN GREEN Wrong people give reasons to go back to the right people. – Shahwan SETHI
MUHAMMAD SHAHWAN TARIQ And when we kissed in the desert, maybe it started for the wrong reasons...but it ended with the rig...
BRYNNA GABRIELSON If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for...
NATALIA KILLS

More R. Buckminster Fuller

One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. ...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Eac...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we&#...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Tension is the great integrity.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one wi...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Truth is a tendency.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new mode...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give ...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. Bu...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless w...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffe...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a h...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art o...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Either war is obsolete or men are.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER I think I am a verb.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER A self-balancing, 28-jointed adaptor-based biped; an electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruc...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggerin...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER God is a verb.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Dare to be naive.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience aga...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a ...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Dare to be naïve.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Love is metaphysical gravity.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we'v...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolution...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER I just invent. Then I wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER The minute you choose to do what you really want to do,
it's a different kind of life.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model....
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a f...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative ...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all ...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not ...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Either war is obsolete, or men are.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER God is a verb, not a noun.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and des...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is s...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless w...
BUCKMINSTER FULLER We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as...
BUCKMINSTER FULLER Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER God is a verb.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .
BUCKMINSTER FULLER We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless w...
BUCKMINSTER FULLER Controlled time is our true wealth.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER Our power is in our ability to decide.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER Everyone is born a genius.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER You can't learn less.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Eac...
BUCKMINSTER FULLER I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a livin...
BUCKMINSTER FULLER God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. ...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Our power is in our ability to decide.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art o...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all ...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Man is a self-balancing, 28-jointed adapter-base biped, and electro-chemical reduction plant, integr...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER You can't learn less.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience aga...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffe...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going ...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless w...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much ov...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER God is a verb.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we'v...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study t...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instructi...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Eac...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one wi...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Don't fight forces, use them.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly se...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Controlled time is our true wealth.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a h...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Everyone is born a genius.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Either war is obsolete or men are.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER If the success or failure of this Planet, and of Human Beings, depended on how I am and what I do; H...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclus...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Man knows so much and does so little.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Truth is a tendency.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER To expose a 4.2 trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 larges...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldn't have done anywher...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Love is metaphysical gravity.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model tha...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or th...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER War is obsolete
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER One outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book cam...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no manual to identify all the parts...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Tension is the great integrity.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. Bu...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model tha...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER 'BUCKY' FULLER The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.
J. S. BUCKMINSTER The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.
J. S. BUCKMINSTER If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
MARGARET FULLER Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where yo...
SAMUEL FULLER You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. Th...
SAMUEL FULLER Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what y...
SAMUEL FULLER When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of th...
SAMUEL FULLER We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
SAMUEL FULLER Surviving is the only glory in war.
SAMUEL FULLER I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the...
MELVILLE FULLER The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
THOMAS FULLER One of the outstanding sources of resistance to imperial power in the Muslim world came from Sufi gr...
GRAHAM FULLER When someone asks if you want to play Brittany Murphy, who you idolized as a child and grew up lovin...
AMANDA FULLER Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
MARGARET FULLER Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built many stories high.
THOMAS FULLER In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.
ALEXANDRA FULLER He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
THOMAS FULLER Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
FULLER THOMAS God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.
THOMAS FULLER Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
THOMAS FULLER Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales whi...
THOMAS FULLER Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
MARGARET FULLER Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.
THOMAS FULLER Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
MARGARET FULLER In southern and central Africa, tragedy roared at us, and we roared back. We shared dramas publicly,...
ALEXANDRA FULLER If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has...
THOMAS FULLER It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals t...
THOMAS FULLER There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in t...
THOMAS FULLER Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.
THOMAS FULLER Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
THOMAS FULLER Today is yesterday's pupil.
THOMAS FULLER Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
THOMAS FULLER He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
THOMAS FULLER Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
THOMAS FULLER Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetual...
MARGARET FULLER Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of...
THOMAS FULLER Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed o...
THOMAS FULLER We have all forgot more than we remember.
THOMAS FULLER A good garden may have some weeds.
THOMAS FULLER