Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
ADAM SAVAGELists are how I parse and manage the world.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.
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Failure is always an option.
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I’m obsessed with the form of a toolbox.
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I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
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I’ve meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn’t work for me about them.
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Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can’t cash.
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We are always works in progress.
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So my wife’s experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they’re doing.
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New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard.
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In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a ‘failed experiment.’ Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
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How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?!
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It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
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That you have to do the heavy lifting while you’re here. And when you don’t, well, you suffer the consequences.
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In fact, sometimes the only way they’ll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show.
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Let’s blow some stuff up.
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I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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I’ve paid attention. I’ve pictured what I want to happen in my life.
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Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction – spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff.
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Gravity. It’s not just a good idea; it’s the law!
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Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of.
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When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the ‘Star Wars’ movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.
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Remember kids, I have life insurance.
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I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my ‘Creative Projects’ folder
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The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.
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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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