R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
Quotes to Explore
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride.
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I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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Entrepreneurial Philanthropy is not just a philosophy or a dream. It is a promise that philanthropy is at its best when it is founded on entrepreneurial zest and agility.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.
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Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.
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I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.
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I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.
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I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.
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Steve Dallas...a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He's never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.
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I think in all of the arts there are just certain people that have a gift. I think it's a certain spirituality, it's a God-given gift that just certain individuals have.
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
