Tinkering Quotes
43 quotes by 40 authors
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I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some music to the…
— Duke Ellington
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Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be…
— Eric Hoffer
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We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other law will stop…
— Frank Chodorov
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The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have…
— Verlyn Klinkenborg
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Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.
— Margaret Atwood
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The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts
— Aldo Leopold
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Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective and…
— Bruce Holland Rogers
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market
— E F Schumacher
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At this young age I am already sold on the idea of the dog. One of God's absolutely greatest inventions and one that needs no…
— Rick Springfield
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Keep my eyes fixed on You, Lord. Help me to stop tinkering and realize my total inability to change. I look to You to change…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Hire the best people you can find. This was kind of easy in the early days of foursquare - we hired our friends who were…
— Dennis Crowley
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Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a musty archive of…
— Bill Bryson
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Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by…
— Leroy Chiao
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Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any…
— John F. Kerry
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True conformity to the dictates of nature requires reverence for the past and solicitude for the future. 'Nature' is not simply the sensation of the…
— Russell Kirk
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(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.
— Nigella Lawson
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I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to…
— Melissa McCarthy
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I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville started tinkering around in Dayton and at Kitty Hawk, because I believe that two Wrights…
— Ogden Nash
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Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions that…
— James MacGregor Burns
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I was always tinkering around with stuff but nothing serious at the time. I was doing animations and drawing like crazy, but I wasn't imagining…
— Chad VanGaalen
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