Robert Fulghum
Robert Fulghum
Robert Lee Fulghumis an American author and Unitarian Universalist minister...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth4 June 1937
CountryUnited States of America
life cutting simplicity
Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred simplicity.
goal secret life-goal
Now everybody has some secret goals in life.
education people kindergarten
All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess ...
dream powerful facts
The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.
needs finest workmen
Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.
wisdom school sunday
Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.
jobs artist tasks
An artists job is to see. And to go out in the world and see it firsthand, just as it is; to report with line and words what is seen. To be in the world, not just study about the world, that is the artists task
imagination people secret
Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A Beauty Bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one... And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.
country jobs thinking
Sometimes, when asked the what-do-you-do question, it occurs to me to say that I work for the government. I have a government job, essential to national security. I AM A CITIZEN. Like the Supreme Court judges, my job is for life, and the well-being of my country depends on me. It seems fair to think that I should be held accountable for my record in the same way I expect accountability from those who seek elected office. I would like to be able to say that I can stand on my record and am proud of it.
might life-is happens
Life is. I am. Anything might happen.
philosophy infinite possibility
Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me.
thinking worry stuff
I often say that I don't worry about the meaning of life-I can't handle that big stuff. What concerns me is the meaning in life-day by day, hour by hour, while I'm doing whatever it is I do. What counts is not what I do, but how I think about myself while I'm doing it.
home long different
Do you ever go off with a long grocery list and come home from the store with a bunch of different stuff? And somebody in the family unsacks the groceries and wants to know why you got this and didn't get that and just where is the whatever? And you want to say, 'Well, just be glad I came back, okay?' And the unpacker says, 'Well, next time bring what's on the list.'
empowering fairy-tale tales
To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things.To do these things is to make fairy tales come true.