- You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
- Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerating system. If we discover the laws that govern this system and live synergistically within them, sustainability will follow and humankind will be a success.
- It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
- We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
- In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.
- Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked.
- You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
- When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
- If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
10 inspirational buckminster fuller quotes on success
