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  • Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Savage Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Depth Quotes
  • The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don't need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It's not just an idea, it's reality. We're discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Savage Quotes , Reality Quotes , Order Quotes
  • I'm not a sculptor; I'm a hard-edged model maker. You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from 'Star Wars' - especially parts from 'Star Wars' - I can do this stuff all day long. It's exactly how I made my living for 15 years.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Savage Quotes , Stars Quotes , War Quotes
  • After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Savage Quotes , Nice Quotes , Blow Quotes
  • Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Savage Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Past Quotes
  • I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Savage Quotes , Brain Quotes , Relax Quotes
  • The main trend with the theme episodes is that anywhere there is a misconception about the way the physical world works, we're finding fertile material. Whether it's in a phrase like "going over like a lead balloon" or "a needle in a haystack," or tackling movie myths or even a genre, like MacGyver or James Bond, we're finding that all these things can lead to people believing the world works in a certain way. It might not be correct, but we can test out if it's true.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Savage Quotes , Believe Quotes , People Quotes
  • I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other's designs, and we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Savage Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Appreciate Quotes