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 enjoyable for one reader as the next. But novels and other book-length narratives are great rambling things that always contain some flaws. For works of any length, there comes a point when your continued tinkering won't improve the whole, but will just trade one set of problems for another.
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.
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market
I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.
Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.
Fed and electoral college could use some tinkering, but they are not the source of the problems.
It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion.
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 nature.
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.
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.
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.
Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
Have Liverpool done too much tinkering and tailoring with the system?
If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not.
Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.
We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.
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.
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 rhythm that I used in jerking ice-cream sodas at the Poodle Dog. I fooled around with the tune more and more until at last, lo and behold, I had completed my first piece of finished music.
(In cooking), there is always room for careful tinkering.
