R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Everyone is doing forensics.
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
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Be candid with everyone.
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One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.
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I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
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The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.
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Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.
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I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.
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Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
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It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising and unexpected movement away from collective patterns of behavior and received wisdom.
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The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability.
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Pain is love.
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I'm thrilled I can make a living doing something I enjoy.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
