R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Character

• We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Why
  • Know
  • Day

• My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Best
  • New York

• To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Great
  • Job

• It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually left 'Cowboys & Aliens' and went straight into 'The Change-Up.' It was kind of a funny change of pace.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Different
  • Opportunity

• Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Sacred
  • Cows
  • Hamburger

• I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Feeling

• As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Black

• We often think about happiness as trying to increase our joy, but it's also about decreasing our worry. So what you get for paying those high taxes is, if you're a parent thinking about putting your child through school, you don't have to worry about it, because all education through college is free.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • School

• If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Up
  • May
  • Change

• I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Child
  • I Want
  • I

• I'm believing that miracles and blessings still exist.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Exist
  • Blessings
  • Miracles

• To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Happy

• He let Shane drop back down in his chair, and walked out, back stiff. Furious. Shane sat with his hands clutching at the armrests. He exchanged a stunned look with Eve, and they both stood up at once. "No," Shane said. "I did it. Let me fix it." He went off after Michael. Eve chewed her lip and said, "Well, we're either going to see half the house destroyed, or their bromance is going to go all the way.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • House
  • Way

• You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Feel
  • Fame

• To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.

  

  Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard.

  

  Lily King
  • Words
  • Hand
  • Brain

• The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Reading
  • Temptation
  • Praying

• But I went to 10 different schools, so I didn’t make many friends. I’ve always been a bit of a loner. My anger has always been in me, mainly being bitter that I didn’t get a better education.

  

  Mark Shaw
  • Friends
  • Anger
  • Schools

• Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Long
  • May
  • Think

• The trip had become boring. It wasn't exciting anymore to totally be a singer/songwriter because it wasn't working for me.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Exciting
  • Boring
  • Singers

• When I run, I think about everything: physics, family problems, plans for the weekend. I haven't made any big discoveries on a run, but it does give me time to think through problems. Some solutions are obvious, but they are only obvious when you are relaxed enough to find them.

  

  Wolfgang Ketterle
  • Thinking
  • Running
  • Problem

• It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Discovery
  • Exciting
  • Unsolved Problems