R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
Quotes to Explore
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I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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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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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.
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I don't sleep enough, and it does... what is the opposite of wonders... horrors. It does horrors for my skin.
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It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.
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I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.
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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
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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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Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.
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If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.
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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.
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It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.
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I'm no good at describing my books. 'Holes' has been out now for seven years, and I still can't come up with a good answer when asked what that book is about.
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Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
