Learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.
ADAM SAVAGEI think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
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Let’s get on our knees and pray. I don’t know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
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You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from ‘Star Wars’
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I’ve regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.
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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.
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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.
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When someone tells us something we’re doing wrong on the boards, we try to respond, we try to be responsive to the fan boards, but yeah, I can’t read them.
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From earliest times, humans – explorers and thinkers – have wanted to figure out the shape of their world.
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I mean it’s ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.
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They’re not very good ideas, but at least they’re ideas!
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We’re discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.
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And there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else’s drawing sounds like going back to heaven.
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I’m always going to be making costumes. It’s one of the ways I relax my brain.
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The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century
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In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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