R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

I never wanted to be like anyone growing up. It's always been about the enjoyment, and I've just never wanted to imitate anyone.

I don't really try to pattern myself after any particular person. I pretty much make it up as I go along.

Question everything. Don't try to emulate someone else's path. Look at what you have, the tools you have, the place you're in; know the rules, and break them.

People say 'follow in the footsteps' but I always find that a strange expression because what you want to do is forge your own path, so to speak.

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

I just like doing things from my own head.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.

I was lucky I went to school in London because the tutors could see what to do. I knew I wanted to do something different. Why would I want to do what other people were already doing, because they would always do it better? I always wanted to work around the body. So throughout my college years, my work was quite free.

I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

At WSX I think I was very much trying to figure it out on my own and we were creating our own style and our own thing. I can only speak for myself, I was not trying to be anything. I was not trying to be like anyone else.

I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from others. I did not think it was necessary to do things the way others are doing it.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

I just really like to find my own ideas.

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.

Each individual's way is going to be different. Never follow anybody. That is the greatest calamity that can happen to a man. Once you start following somebody else, you become a carbon copy. You become an imitation.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

I realised that conforming didn't accomplish anything. Do your own thing. As long as you learn that, you're cool.

We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of 'guess what's in the teacher's head?' What the world really needs to know right now is what kind of dreams and ideas are in your head.

Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.