R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
Quotes to Explore
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I'm just a Connecticut country boy. The people I've known, the changes of season, the call of the blue jay - when I'm away, all of them haunt me.
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
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I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
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What I've found in my life with our children is that often you can give them advice and tell them to eat the right things, stay in shape and wear sunscreen, and they don't really want to listen. But then they hear it from someone else, and they do listen.
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'Towards Evening My Heart,' Poems (1913)
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People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good if your daughter’s doing good. We’re all one family.
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Though, in debating with regard to theories, it be lawful to say whether this or that is consistent with the Divine attributes, yet, when we find that God has actually done any thing, all question about its justice, wisdom, and benevolence, is forever out of place.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
