"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."

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Source : "Under age gun: when less time can mean better problem-solving" by Adam Savage, www.wired.com. February 11, 2013.

Adam Savage

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“Coolidge is the best living demonstration that, if you keep silent long enough, something fortunate may happen to you.”
“Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.”

Source : "Mapping the Nation". Book edited by Gopal Balakrishnan and Benedict Anderson, 1996.
“On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest importance.”

Source : François Arago, William Henry Smyth, Baden Powell, Robert Grant, Sir William Fairbairn (1859). “Biographies of distinguished scientific men”, p.347
“Get me a skinny frappuccino. I have no idea what that is - I would like to think you would be presented with a tiny Italian man.”
“Drawing is like the first kiss. It carries within it the deepest emotion and the challenge of the first step. It is the first cry after birth”
“This world is not a place merely to live in, nor a place in which to do certain kinds of business; it is a great workshop in which to make godly men.”
“The worst isn't the last thing about the world. It's the next to the last thing. The last thing is the best. It's the power from on high that comes down into the world, that wells up from the rock-bottom worst of the world like a hidden spring. Can you believe it? The last, best thing is the laughing deep in the hearts of the saints, sometimes our hearts even. Yes. You are terribly loved and forgiven. Yes. You are healed. All is well.”
“If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.”

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