R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals

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• TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.

  

  Gail Porter
  • World
  • Done
  • Job

• We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Society
  • Fire
  • Sound

• Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Confidence

• I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Part
  • Turn

• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Night
  • Best
  • Silence

• If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Like
  • Computer
  • Busy

• I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Book
  • Me
  • Slow

• In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • People
  • Play
  • Perception

• Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

  

  Edmund H. North
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Small

• I really like working, the opportunity to work with good people and to play interesting parts.

  

  Natasha Little
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Good
  • Family
  • Father

• In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Pain

• I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.

  

  Rain
  • Work
  • Why
  • May

• My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Rude
  • Manners
  • Terrorist

• Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Good
  • Words
  • Evil

• My preference is not to fight a Mexican.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Fight
  • Mexican
  • Preference

• Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me – if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Personality
  • Better
  • Boring

• I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • History
  • Player
  • Road

• It's not easy to follow Jesus' example, and if you go to church it doesn't mean you're automatically doing it.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Church
  • Mean
  • Jesus

• I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative.

  

  Catherine Ashton
  • Woman
  • First
  • I Was

• I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You can still gamble, carry a loaded pistol, and go into a silver-mine, and they still have saloons with swinging doors, boardwalks, and horses.

  

  Caroline Lawrence
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.

  

  Clive Owen
  • Men
  • Strong
  • Powerful

• on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Design
  • Priority