Tinker Quotes

48 quotes by 44 authors

From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts… — Deepak Chopra
...I believe that it is not enough, as I said, to tinker at the margins of U.S. immigration law... the United States must institute comprehensive… — Ronald Reagan
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker… — Henry Miller
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that… — Harry A. Blackmun
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored--indeed, I have struggled--along… — Harry A. Blackmun
It's all right if your automobile goes wrong while you are driving it. You can get out in the road and tinker with it. But… — Katherine Stinson
Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. — George Ryan
Sometimes you have to get rid of something that's good, and tinker with something that's better. — John Schnatter
It is easy to prescribe improvement for others; it is easy to organize something, to institutionalize this or that, to pass laws, multiply bureaucratic agencies,… — Albert J. Nock
And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power. — DeForest Soaries
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death, — Harry A. Blackmun
One of the stories I love is how Gutenbergâ€™s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across Europe… — Steven Johnson
As good marketers, we like to tinker with things and make them better. — Michael Freeman
If it's not broken, tinker with it till you find out how it works. — Bob Proctor
These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit… — Franklin P. Adams
I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she laid her life… — James McBride
We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness. — William James
I spent my entire experience with Gary [ on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy] staring at him and not returning any lines because I think he's… — Tom Hardy
If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction. — Arthur Bloch
Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government. — Manmohan Singh

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