R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
Quotes to Explore
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San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
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If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.
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While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.
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I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
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My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.
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When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don't take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don't talk about baseball at home.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
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I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big consequences for saying, 'I'm just going to devote my life to making art,' or 'I'm going to devote my life to writing novels.' You end up with no resources.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.
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I usually just dress myself. I typically make something or buy something and fix it up. I really like to spend my money on accessories like bags, shoes, belts. I don't really spend on things I can make.
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I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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When the time is right, I will do female-centric films.
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Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.
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Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.
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Romance is something people make fun of others for caring about, and yet it’s something that’s very natural to care about—it’s a loving connection between people, like family and friendships: it’s a significant emotional choice people make.
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It is easy to fail when designing an interactive experience. Designers fail when they do not know the audience, integrate the threads of content and context, welcome the public properly, or make clear what the experience is and what the audience's role in it will be.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
