Tinkering Quotes

43 quotes by 40 authors

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
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
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
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
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
The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts — Aldo Leopold
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
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market — E F Schumacher
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering. — Nigella Lawson
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
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
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
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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