R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Community
  • Build
  • Hats

• I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Comedy
  • Always
  • Quirky

• It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Life
  • Time
  • Short

• If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • You
  • Alone
  • Write

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • White
  • Fruit
  • Egg

• You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Find

• Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Society
  • Black

• I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Life
  • Death
  • Interesting

• Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Hurt
  • Feel
  • Humiliated

• I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Think
  • Best

• As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Always
  • Writer
  • Blind

• Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Next

• Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • Important
  • Help
  • Government

• I'm always challenged by someone.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Always
  • Someone
  • Challenged

• I wasn't angry with God that I lost my husband. I was devastated; I was broken. I still am, in many ways. But I feel like God gives free will to everyone, and people who want to choose evil, they have that same free will.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • God
  • Free

• I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • People
  • Way
  • Relationships

• If any ask me what a free Government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Free
  • Purpose

• Besides, they are our outward consciences, And preachers to us all, admonishing That we should drew us fairly for our end.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Should
  • Ends
  • Conscience

• Nothing is impossible to the mind. All it's guidance and power are available to you. When you fully realize that thought causes all, you will know there are never any limits that you yourself do not impose.

  

  Uell Stanley Andersen
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Causes

• I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world.

  

  Sadako Sasaki
  • Life
  • World
  • Peace

• Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Art
  • Succeed

• When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Power
  • Peace
  • Acting