R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

I like a world where each of us has the tools to be able to make able to make our own decisions.

I am my own person caoable of making my own decisions and choosing powerfully how i live. I appreciate and respect what others have to say but ultimately I choose how I live my life.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Ultimately the person, even the child, must choose for himself.

When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.

I don't worry about other people, and I don't let them influence me too much. I try to find out what I want to do and not what other people want me to do.

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

I like my freedom. I like to do my own grocery shopping.

No one is indispensable to anyone else. You imagine you're necessary to him or that he will be very unhappy if you leave him, but I'm sure that if you do, within three months he will have fitted another face into your role and you'll see that no one is suffering because of your absence. You must feel free to do whatever feels best to you. Being someone's nurse is no way to live unless you're unable to do anything else. You have to say something on your own and you ought to be thinking, first and foremost, about that.

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.

I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

I've always been like nah, I'm going to have it my way, that way, when I look out that window at the end of the day, I can say I did it my way, whether it's on a higher level, or a level where I can just maintain, I can still say I did it my way.

Every honest man lives for himself. Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't - doesn't live at all.

Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.

I want to be in control of my own destiny.

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

I sleep at night; I do not think about anything. I put everything in my bag and go to sleep. Whatever you can do to me, it does not affect me. I started my life, my own life. I did not inherit it.

I very much want to do things my way, and I want to control the result.

I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.

I like to control my own personal life.

I do need my independence. I have to have that.