Adam Savage Quotes

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.

Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.

It's odd, because I used to see pictures, on telly or wherever, of what I now know to be Shaftesbury Avenue and I used to wonder what that amazing street with all the lights was. Well, now I know. I think when you get a wee taste of something, it maybe isn't what you thought it was.

It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

People think that dreams are better than reality but this is not always the case; sometimes, because you dream too much, you are unable to see what you have in front of your very eyes.

Imagination … which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indulge, prompt us to draw conclusions that are not immediately derived from facts ...

I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality.

Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.

Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.

You can almost convince yourself that you've accomplished things just by thinking about them. The alternative is to be more realistic. You don't necessarily regard the dreaming process as bad or an obstacle, but it's not realistic enough.

If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.

Everything that happens is at least one dimension smaller than you've imagined it to be.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.

Here is Heimel's Law: Anything you fantasize about won't come true. So just cut it out.

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

How easy it is for a fantasy to grab hold of your foot like a rope, and dangle your life upside down while brigands go through your pockets. Deal with the life you've got. Solve the problems you have, rather than fantasizing about a life without them.