Savage Work Quotes

#1. There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man is a beast. And that crusade is your work.

Josemaria Escriva

#2. In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

Helen Rowland

#3. It was clear that he was in love, because he became even more gullible than before.

Mikhail Lermontov

#4. Writing a novel is like running a marathon. Selling one is like building a castle. You gotta do it one brick at a time.

Charles R. Hall

#5. My workplace is wherever I'm making something, which could be in a field in gold country, or in an abandoned warehouse on a military base.

Adam Savage

#6. If what we're really trying to do is stop the spread of HIV, we need to think about the customer.

Amy Lockwood

#7. I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. 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.

Adam Savage

#8. At one end of the national spectrum is white, shining peace - that city-on-a-hill concept. At the other end is black, raging, savage war at the foot of that hill. The space between is the gray zone where the haze of diplomacy and combat meet and bleed into one another. That's where the CIA works.

Jamie Smith

#9. Actresses require protection in their art from blind abuse, from savage criticism. Their work is their religion, if they are seeking the best in their art, and to abuse that faith is to rob them, to dishonor them.

Nance O'Neil

#10. I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work.

Augusta Savage

#11. Whoever despises another human being will never be able to make anything of him. Nothing of what we despise in another is itself foreign to us.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#12. Certain suggestions, or notions, would make the muscles of her lean spotty face quiver, her eyes go sharp and black, and her mouth work as if there was a despicable taste in it. She could stop you in your tracks then, like a savage thornbush.

Alice Munro

#13. I'd like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me.

Fred Savage

#14. I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood.

Adam Savage

#15. You're as good as any other living soul on this earth. Whether other people know that or not doesn't really matter as long as you do.

Elizabeth Haydon

#16. And it certainly seems like it would be a nice place to end up, eventually. But there are so many places we have not yet seen. So many people still to meet. Not to mention all the wrongs to right, villains to vanquish, sights to see, all that. You know.

Neil Gaiman

#17. 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

#18. Knowledge is boundless,
human capacity, limited.

Nicolas Chamfort

#19. I don't even know how to use a semicolon to this day; I use a comma every time. And you know what? If I email somebody and they get upset about me using a comma instead of a semicolon, that's not a person I want to work with anyway. And that's how you weed people out of your life.

Hannibal Buress

#20. Wrestling is a fraternity, and the boys will work their butts off for you as long as you respect them and don't lie. You can't anyone walk all over you or everybody will walk all over you.

Randy Savage

#21. Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.

Elfriede Jelinek

#22. Now that all writers everywhere are contractually obligated to blog and tweet all day long, who has time to work on a book?

Dan Savage

#23. What?" "You're smiling like Mom at a New Kids On The Block concert.

Kelly Oram

#24. Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and as the agent in all that distinguishes the civilized man from the savage.

James F. Cooper

#25. 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.

Adam Savage

#26. Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, 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.

Adam Savage

#27. He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that man is the work of a separate act of creation ... Man is the co-descendant with other mammals of a common progenitor.

Charles Darwin

#28. The simple style is bad for the savage because he does worse than to obtain the luxuries of life; it is good for the philosopher because he does better than to work for them. The question is whether you can bear freedom ...

Henry David Thoreau

#29. 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

#30. For their part, the savage men appear to spend an inordinate amount of time lounging around their lodges, smoking and gossiping among themselves ... so that it occurs to me that perhaps our cultures are not so different after all: the women do all the work while the men do all the talking.

Jim Fergus

#31. Without standards, you end up accepting any morsel of paying work that comes your way, like a hungry mouse devours a crumb. You remain stuck in that gut-tightening, demoralizing position of doing work you despise, for clients you don't like, just because you need the money.

Pete Savage

#32. They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#33. Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.

Walter Savage Landor

#34. What we believe about ourselves determines how we live. If we believe and act on lies, we will end up in bondage,

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#35. I can't think of anything more empowering than the fact that we are destined to be, do and have anything we choose.

Hal Elrod