R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

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• There is no must in art because art is free.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Art
  • Free
  • Because

• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Children
  • Small
  • Dad

• Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • World
  • Effect
  • Buddhism

• In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • People
  • True
  • Risk

• What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Artists

• If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

  

  J. Cole
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Sleep

• Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'

  

  Saint Basil
  • Long
  • May
  • Fear

• I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Small

• Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Man
  • You
  • Naked

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

  

  Jack Anderson
  • Business
  • Relationship
  • Dark

• I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • People
  • Long
  • Woman

• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Guy

• What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'

  

  Halle Berry
  • Reason
  • Star
  • Story

• Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Things
  • Worst
  • Choosing

• John Spratt did a great job of constituent service. When somebody had a problem, he would jump on it. The reason I ran against him was that he was one way in the district and then when he got to Washington, he voted the opposite.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Great
  • Job
  • Service

• Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Life
  • Play
  • Luck

• I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they're going to see. I always want an element of surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it's very important to me to stay true to that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Important
  • True

• And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.

  

  Black Elk
  • Up
  • Understanding
  • Rainbow

• You've got what looks like a year-end balance sheet. It's like memorizing an entire Excel file.

  

  Randy Cross
  • Balance
  • Memorizing
  • Excel file

• I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.

  

  Andy Richter
  • World

• Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Life
  • Man

• Let me tell you about the nap. It's absolutely fantastic. When I was a kid, my father was always trying to tell me how to be a man. And he said - I was maybe nine - he said, 'Philip, whenever you take a nap, take your clothes off and put a blanket over you, and you're going to sleep better.' Well, as with everything, he was right.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Trying
  • Father
  • Sleep

• You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Reality
  • Fighting
  • Model