I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody’s going to take care of you.
ADAM SAVAGEI’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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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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Whether it’s the experiments on ‘MythBusters’ or my earlier work in special effects for movies
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There are jokes I tell in the show that don’t get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers.
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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long.
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Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.
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It’s a pointless delay that wrecks my pace – and mood.
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I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day.
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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 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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My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
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I find it’s too much for me to read endless critiques, even if we’re being well-defended, of exactly what we’re doing.
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Gravity. It’s not just a good idea; it’s the law!
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We’re discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day.
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That’s OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
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We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it’s been quite smooth over there.
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