Quotes about Tinkering

Right now, everything is in place for the competition to really begin. In the past, manufacturers were tinkering with standards and technology, but now that they have that all figured out, the race has begun.

Ted Schadler

The original Dogs of the Dow strategy is actually not a bad one. It has discipline, it's simple, and if you stick with it and don't tinker with it, you'll end up with a diversified portfolio that should do well.

Mark Hulbert

It will be interesting to see if they can tinker with their constitution and ideology to convince us and Europe they have changed their spots.

Geoffrey Kemp

Do you want to really get the pot boiling, so it revs up more and more throughout the arrangement? Or start bold and have it taper off and end with a tear? Or do you make one big broad statement, painting a noble landscape? I've been known to tinker with arrangements for a year or two.

Jamie Laval

The Patriot Act would have saved 3,000 lives, and what's scary about that is once they start tinkering with it, it could cost not just 3,000, but tens of thousands of lives. September 11 whetted the terrorists' appetites ... There's nothing like success to motivate people.

Debra Burlingame

Small employers also have less flexibility to tinker with plan design. They're most likely to shop around for a cheaper plan.

Blaine Bos

These kids grew up 30 miles south of the (University of California) Berkeley campus, which was ripe with revolution, ... And they couldn't have cared less about the politics going on. They were in the garage tinkering with their electronics and starting a revolution that was a thousand times greater than anything that was going on on the college campuses, politically.

Noah Wyle

I think we've lost the set of keys right now. I don't want to tinker around with the carburetor ... I want to take the motor out.

John Raese

The first rule of tinkering is to save all the parts.

Paul Erlich

It's so flawed that we think the attorney general should just withdraw it. You cannot fix it by tinkering with it.

Danny Chun

We'd definitely have to take a look at what went wrong in Mankato. For some reason, things went sour. We'd have to tinker with a proposal to reflect what has not worked.

Dave Knudson

Because of the spectacular failure to reform the system, because we have seen justice delayed for countless death row inmates, with potentially meritorious claims, and 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

You don't have to look very far here at Tinker Stadium to see why tonight's game cannot go on as planned. The Lake Highland Prep baseball coach is disgusted with what he sees. A bathroom in shambles, a grass-less field littered with debris and feces.

Jessica Sanchez

They don't want small initiatives coming out of the blue. They don't want last-minute tinkering. And we have to respect that.

Nancy Walser

Sometimes I have an idea and I'll kind of write the idea down and sort of tinker away at it until I come up with lyrics around it and see where it's going. Sometimes I have the lyrics in my head and sometimes I imagine another artists singing the lyrics, like a famous person singing the lyrics, and that's kind of how I figure out how they should sound based on who I would want to sing the song.

Adam Carroll

Barry Bonds is poised to pass Henry Aaron next year. That will be a very small taste of the assault on what accomplishment means when you start tinkering.

Bill Mckibben

We still have to get better at execution. We're still tinkering where to put kids in the right spot, and that will be done this week to get ready for Lancaster Catholic.

Jeff Boger

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.

Arthur Bloch

Tinkering with it is tantamount to shutting down the regulation, Are you indicating that there will be no cooperation from DHEC if we don't pass it?

Elizabeth Hagood