R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Evolution is the phenomenon of change and the challenge of the next time cycle will involve the creation of constructs that will provide the kind of dynamic knowledge base that can assist the challenges of tomorrow (involving both fundamental and extended information).

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.

The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making.

Life is short, the art is long, the problems pressing.

If we ever do find a complete theory of the universe, it would be a great triumph of human reason but it wouldn't leave much for us to do. We need an intellectual challenge.

The more constraints I have, the more opportunities I have to be creative to fix those constraints.

Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.

An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand.

We could say that practically all the problems of the human race are due to the fact that thought is not proprioceptive.

My intimate knowledge of the [UN] system allowed me to get things done despite the many obstacles.

I never fight, except against difficulties.

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

Facing difficulties is inevitable. Learning from them is optional.

Nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up.

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

I find inspiration everywhere. I love challenges and my favorite thing is to find something ridiculous and be like "if it's all that I have available to me, I am gonna make it look the best that I can".

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth.

We are used to dealing with problems that have a solution and that can be solved in a finite period. But we're at the beginning of a long period of adjustment that does not have a clear-cut terminal point, and in which our wisdom and sophistication and understanding has to be one of the key elements.

We learn most not from all of the things that go right. We learn most when everything goes wrong.

The only people without problems are those in cemeteries. It is not what happens to us that separates failures from successes. It is how we perceive and what we do about what happens that makes the difference.

The human mind thinks but to complicate. As soon as one problem is solved, that solution introduces new complications, other problems that perhaps did not exist before. That was one of my great troubles when I was younger, I invented many things that were very fine, but always I was getting into complications. I have had to work very hard to overcome that.

So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.