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.
ADAM SAVAGEI have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought.
More Adam Savage Quotes
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That’s our job – to strap rockets onto everything.
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I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other’s designs,
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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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It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity.
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It’s a pointless delay that wrecks my pace – and mood.
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Learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.
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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
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Am I missing an eyebrow?
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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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We don’t necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.
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I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
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I would have to say that looked like it hurt.
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I just had one of those ‘what the hell are we doing’ moments.
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I felt like I had kind of played it out, and I wanted to see what was next, and then came Mythbusters.
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Prayer doesn’t work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening.
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