"[Buckminster Fuller] would pretend to be deaf at the right times."

-- Paul Laffoley

#Buckminster Fuller Quotes #Deaf Quotes #Right Time Quotes

“All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.”
“I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being in a large family, so you have to get your story in really quick or someone cuts you off.”
“Pharmacogenomics holds great promise to shed scientific light on the often risky and costly process of drug development, and to provide greater confidence about the risks and benefits of drugs in specific populations. Pharmacogenomics is a new field, but we intend to do all we can to use it to promote the development of medicines. By providing practical guidance on how to turn the explosion of pharmacogenomic information into real evidence on new drugs, we are taking an important step toward that goal.”
“I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.”
“I think we crushed ourselves down over the centuries. Buried ourselves under greed and hate and whatever other sins we could find until our souls finally hit the rock bottom of the universe. And then they scraped a hole through it, into some ... darker place.”
“The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.”
“Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them.”
“Everything we are afraid to try, all our unfulfilled dreams, constitute a limitation on what we are and could become.”

Source : Gordon Livingston (2009). “Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now”, p.55, Da Capo Press

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