quotes about Tinkering
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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 -
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 a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.
-- Eric Hoffer -
Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.
-- Isaac Asimov -
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 cannot be unified by mechanical linkages frail bridges(or) tinkering. If we are to turn the founders upside down we must directly confront the Constitutional structure they erected.
-- James MacGregor Burns -
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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 sewing.
-- Melissa McCarthy -
(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.
-- Nigella Lawson -
We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.
-- Paolo Bacigalupi -
Have Liverpool done too much tinkering and tailoring with the system?
-- Stan Collymore -
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I like taking things apart and putting them back together. Tinkering. I'd be a professional tinkerer. Tinkerbell. I think that's what they're called.
-- Chris CarmackSource : "Nashville's Chris Carmack on The O.C. and the rules of the death row meal". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.
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Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.
-- Edmund BlundenSource : Edmund Blunden (1930). “Leigh Hunt: a biography”, Archon Books