I find people only listen to you when they ask…

I find people only listen to you when they ask you to talk to them.

Sourced, Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)

Other Buckminster Fuller Quotes

The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet’s surface at that time. Everything else will follow. - View Quote Details on The most important thing to teach your children is that…
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Corporations are neither physical nor metaphysical phenomena. They are socioeconomic ploys — legally enacted game-playing — agreed upon only between overwhelmingly powerful socioeconomic individuals and by them imposed upon human society and its all unwitting members. - View Quote Details on Corporations are neither physical nor metaphysical phenomena. They are socioeconomic…
Each age is characterized by its own astronomical myriads of new, special-case experiences and problems to be stored in freshly born optimum capacity human brains-which storages in turn may disclose to human minds the presence of heretofore undiscovered, unsuspectedly existent eternal generalized principles. - View Quote Details on Each age is characterized by its own astronomical myriads of…
“Reality” should always be in quotes. - View Quote Details on “Reality” should always be in quotes.
While no politician or political system can ever afford to yield understandably and enthusiastically to their adversaries and opposers, all politicians can and will yield enthusiastically to the computers safe flight-controlling capabilities in bringing all of humanity in for a happy landing. - View Quote Details on While no politician or political system can ever afford to…
The wellspring of reality is the family of weightless generalized principles. - View Quote Details on The wellspring of reality is the family of weightless generalized…
I am convinced that human continuance depends entirely upon: the intuitive wisdom of each and every individual… the individual’s integrity of speaking and acting only on the individual’s own within-self-intuited and reasoned initiative… the individual’s never joining action with others as motivated only by crowd-engendered-emotionalism, or a sense of the crowd’s power to overwhelm, or in fear of holding to the course indicated by one’s own intellectual convictions. - View Quote Details on I am convinced that human continuance depends entirely upon: the…
I do know that technologically humanity now has the opportunity, for the first time in its history, to operate our planet in such a manner as to support and accommodate all humanity at a substantially more advanced standard of living than any humans have ever experienced. - View Quote Details on I do know that technologically humanity now has the opportunity,…
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. - View Quote Details on Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but…