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Adam Savage Quotes

Total quotes: 21
“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.”
— Adam Savage, Words to Chew On: Mythbusters’ Adam Savage Delievers Speech For Morality
Tagged: prayer, atheism, meditation, Listening
“From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.”
— Adam Savage, The Truth About MythBusters
Tagged: humans, explorers, Thinkers, Story, Storytelling, Truth, Facts
“It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way”
— Adam Savage, Stay Curious with Jamie and Adam of Mythbusters
Tagged: Thinking, Attitude, Curiosity, Creativity
“Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.”
— Adam Savage, Under the Gun: When Less Time Can Mean Better Problem-Solving
Tagged: Deadline, Thinking out of the box, Mind
“The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!”
— Adam Savage,
Tagged: ability, difference, Science
“We don't necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.”
— Adam Savage, Mythbusters' Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage
Tagged: Fault, Failure, Methodology, Ethos
“The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.”
— Adam Savage, MythBuster Adam Savage: SOPA Could Destroy the Internet as We Know It
Tagged: Internet, Technology, Innovation, Advancement
“The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the 'Mythbusters' heart and there's no small reason that they've embraced us. That's our people. That's the way we like to think.”
— Adam Savage, Stay Curious with Jamie and Adam of Mythbusters
Tagged: skepticism, Community, Mythbusters
“The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.”
— Adam Savage, Adam Savage on Becoming a Maker
Tagged: Toy, Creation, Building
“I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It's like Batman's utility belt.”
— Adam Savage, Inside Adam Savage’s Toolbox
Tagged: Tools, Toolbox, equipment, Obsession
“Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. 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 Savage, Commencement Address at Sarah Lawrence College
Tagged: Fools, Work, Passion
“We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.”
— Adam Savage, Commencement Address at Sarah Lawrence College
Tagged: Work In Progress, Love, human
“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.”
— Adam Savage, MythBusters Tour in Baltimore
Tagged: Science, experiment, Failure, test
“I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend”
— Adam Savage, Words to Chew On: Mythbusters’ Adam Savage Delievers Speech For Morality
Tagged: Religion, God, Church, Family, atheism
“I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.”
— Adam Savage, Words to Chew On: Mythbusters’ Adam Savage Delievers Speech For Morality
Tagged: Adulthood, Independence, realization
“You have time to fail. You have time to mess up. You have time to try again.”
— Adam Savage, Adam Savage, Commencement Keynote Address to Class of 2012 at Sarah Lawrence College
Tagged: Failure, Mistakes, H4D-15
“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.”
— Adam Savage, 'Mythbusters' star explains how the cohosts survived 14 seasons without getting along: 'We're not friends'
Tagged: Working, Colleagues, solutions, Problem Solving, designs
“I reject your reality and substitute my own.”
— Adam Savage,
Tagged: Reality, rejection letter
“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.”
— Adam Savage, Words to Chew On: Mythbusters’ Adam Savage Delievers Speech For Morality
Tagged: Rekigion, Universe, Existence, Reality
“Gravity. It's not just a good idea; it's the law!”
— Adam Savage, Food for The Eagle
Tagged: gravity, Science, Law
“I felt like I had kind of played it out, and I wanted to see what was next, and then came Mythbusters. You know, it's the best job I've ever had, on its worst day it's better than anything else, but it's a huge amount of responsibility, and there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else's drawing sounds like going back to heaven.”
— Adam Savage, Mythbusters' Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage
Tagged: Mythbusters, Job, Work, Responsibility
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