Quotes by category:Tinkering

If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good,... by Aldo Leopold

If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not.

tinkering cogs land

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.

tinkering together thinking

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market

E. F. Schumacher

tinkering business running

Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.

tinkering mastery vision

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.

tinkering chance matter

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit th... by Frank Chodorov

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.

tinkering libertarian government

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machiner... by Harry A. Blackmun

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

Harry A. Blackmun

tinkering death-penalty human-rights

Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quan... by Isaac Asimov

Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.

tinkering quantity love

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

tinkering bridges reality

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ide... by Jim Gaffigan

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

tinkering writing ideas

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

tinkering quilts thinking

(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering. by Nigella Lawson

(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.

tinkering cooking rooms

Fed and electoral college could use some tinkering, but they are... by Noam Chomsky

Fed and electoral college could use some tinkering, but they are not the source of the problems.

tinkering college use

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

tinkering nature world

Have Liverpool done too much tinkering and tailoring with the sys... by Stan Collymore

Have Liverpool done too much tinkering and tailoring with the system?

tinkering too-much done

Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.

ten-commandments tinkering congress