If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

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"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

- Buckminster Fuller

Transformation

"When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But when I’ve finished, if the solution is not beautiful I know it’s wrong."

- Buckminster Fuller

Belief in Self

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

- Buckminster Fuller

Change

"The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it’s a different kind of life."

- Buckminster Fuller

Self-improvement

"The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow."

- Buckminster Fuller

Contribution

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"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

Learning

"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Learning

"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live."

- Dorothy West

Learning

"In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind, there are few."

- Vince Gironda

Learning

"I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it."

- Vincent van Gogh

Learning