R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an elegance level that made the discovering scientist's working hypotheses seem crude by comparison. The discovered reality made the scientists exploratory work seem relatively disorderly.

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• 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

• In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Violence

• I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Important
  • Think
  • Really

• The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • High
  • Mad
  • Strange

• I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Lyrics
  • Solos

• I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Question

• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Work
  • Think
  • Turn

• Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Wrong

• I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Air
  • Years
  • Missing

• The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Free

• Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
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  • Fault
  • Others

• The journey matters as much as the goal.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Goal
  • Journey
  • Matters

• I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Job

• When I have to promote things now, sometimes I realize that I had a movie in mind, but in the end, it's a vision of somebody else, so I have to promote their idea.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Mind
  • Movie
  • Vision

• I felt that it was cool to even get to the point where I was able to audition on the actual 'SNL' stage. Looking back on it, I can't believe that I wasn't more nervous.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Believe
  • Cool
  • Looking Back

• Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Great
  • May

• Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Up
  • Children
  • You

• How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Happy
  • Boy
  • Marionette

• When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.

  

  John Donne
  • Contentment

• I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Work
  • Dad
  • Thought

• We were brought here for a reason, and that's to be physical, run fast and get to the ball. We have some great guys who came in here and are going to help us out this year. As long as we continue to move forward, practice hard and work together, we'll be good.

  

  Bob Sanders
  • Work
  • Help
  • Running

• Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural, spontaneous encounter, unclouded by the suppositions and expectations that come between us and reality. It is, if you like, a paring down of life until we see it as it really is, free from our illusions; it is merely a divestment of ourselves until we recognize our own true nature.

  

  David Fontana
  • Reality
  • Moments
  • Expectations

• It gets worse and worse, it reinforces this idea of women as sexual objects, right; there's this idea of women as playthings for their amusement... that we are not meant to be treated with respect.

  

  Anita Sarkeesian
  • Women
  • Respect

• What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an elegance level that made the discovering scientist's working hypotheses seem crude by comparison. The discovered reality made the scientists exploratory work seem relatively disorderly.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
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  • Reality