Andrew Mason Quotes

I just like building stuff.

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

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

I have blocks of wood all over my house; I spend all of my day knocking!

I like to make things. It's been part of my identity since I was a kid.

Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.

When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw 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.

I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.

I love creating things. I love making things.

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

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

It's really fun and challenging to build things that have never been built before.

Even when I was young, I would build things with Lego or make 'robots' out of cereal boxes - long before I learned metalwork. The desire to build was always there.

Building and tinkering were such a huge part of our childhood, whether we were trying to entertain ourselves as kids, helping our parents out on the ranch, or getting creative with school projects.

Inventing is something that has always come very natural to me. As a child, I was always fiddling with things, making contraptions. I'd see something, go home, and try to make something even better.

I enjoy making and creating things.

Some people like to paint and sing. We like to create and build.

There's something very satisfying about creating a tactile product.

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.

My compulsion is to create things.

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.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.