You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
Don’t fight forces; use them.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet’s surface at that time. Everything else will follow.
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
Buckminster Fuller Quotes part 2
Love is metaphysical gravity.
The margin is where the magic happens.
Wealth is a byproduct of solving problems.
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… How would I be? What would I do?
You can change the world by changing your beliefs about yourself.
In order to change an existing paradigm, you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.
The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it’s a different kind of life.
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
Dare to be naïve.
Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him, he is always doing both.
When I’m working on something, I proceed very slowly and I’m often baffled and disoriented by the work in progress. It’s a constant state of not knowing.
Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing; however, every time, before they do it, they have to exhaust all the other alternatives.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
I’m not a genius. I’m a…a noticeable man.
God is not a noun but a verb.
Wealth is our organized capability to cope effectively with the environment in sustaining our healthy regeneration and decreasing both the physical and metaphysical restrictions of the naturally regenerative processes of Universe.
Don’t fight forces; use them.
Universe is not a thing; it’s a whole lot of events.
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe.
When I’m working on something, I proceed very slowly and I’m often baffled and disoriented by the work in progress…
Do something wholeheartedly, make it beautiful and stay with it till it’s finished
Most of my notions about life have come from the outside looking in, as an observer, not a participant… and the way they got into my head was by full-time observation
My ideas always come from real-life within the big design… my ideas never come from another architect.
Genius is never able to explain its own process to its inventor… the genius always admits, ‘I made a mistake. I didn’t know I knew how to do that.’
A map of the world that does not include Utopia…
I seem to be a verb… an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
I’ve seen the future and it works.
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