Quotes about "Success & Achievement"

For rich children, it'd be very easy and convenient never to take any steps to build an identity outside of your association with your family's wealth. ”

Science isn't just for guys in lab coats, you know? It's for anybody who wants to do a good job of understanding and investigating the world. ”

Duct tape is like that. It's a building block. You can make a rope out of it, you can make a cloth out of it. And because it sticks to stuff it's even more powerful. It's like an uber-material because of the versatility of a sticky fiber. ”

I went to the library - and this was before the Internet - and I searched for a career that was creative, would not fall into a routine, involved problem solving and making things. It also had to be dynamic. I came up with special effects. ”

You know, dealing with effects, as a job it's great, but with 'Mythbusters,' the stuff we've seen, the stuff we've absorbed over the years, has just been fantastic, and I wouldn't change it for the world. ”

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling. ”

I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man. ”

Americans should understand that 50%, or something like, of the kids in inner-city schools, often poor and often minority, don't graduate. And the ones that do don't necessarily have the skills to get a job. That is the biggest disgrace in this country. ”

Among those people not graduating, there might be a Steve Jobs or Barack Obama. We'll never know. ”

My only ambition is to grow as a musician. ”