Wayne Huizenga Quotes

I like to build things. I like to do things.

I just like building stuff.

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

So much of my background is about making: physically doing it myself.

I like building.

I think I'd be quite good at Builder, like designer, construction... I've always liked making things. I'm quite good with my hands. So I think I'd be quite good at designing new inventions.

I am a maker of useful things.

I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right way, I could create the intended effect.

I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself as an architect - but I think I might need to go back to school for that.

Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.

I think of myself as more of a maker than a thinker.

Often when I talk about what I do, making isn't just this inevitable function tacked on at the end.

Studying engineering was natural for me; I was always interested in technology and building things.

I've always loved creating things with my hands.

I've always been interested in mechanical things. I think I must have been heavily influenced by my father, who is also very good with his hands. He liked to build things. I always loved to watch him do it, and I loved to build things on my own.

When I was four or five years old, my grandfather showed me how to build things, paint, saw. Through years of fixing bikes, repairing lawn mowers, I learned how things work.

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

I used to hang out in my dad's workshop on weekends. Later, when I was starting out as an actor, I became a roofer and a framer to make money. But what I really enjoyed was the finished work. I like the longevity.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

I really want to be part of things from the ground up wherever possible. Not to say that I'm not open to being a gun for hire - I am, absolutely - but I really enjoy developing.

As the editor-in-chief of the do-it-yourself magazine 'Make,' I've met scores of dedicated makers. They come from all walks of life - rich, poor, young, old, male, female, religious, atheist, liberal, conservative.

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

I just like to build things and do things.