#tinker

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. ↗

— Henry Ford

#history #live #make #only #present

They simply don't know that much about what they're doing. There isn't enough control. There isn't enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery. ↗

— David R. Brower

#capability #complicated #control #doing #enough

I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking. ↗

— Josh Duhamel

#backyard #deck #go #grew #hiking

Finally, a twenty-two old girl was dazzled by the world's brightness and kept her eyes shut for two weeks. When at the end of that time she opened her eyes again, she did not recognize any objects, but, "the more she now directed her gaze upon everything about her, the more it could be seen as an expression of gratification and astonishment overspread her features; she repeatedly exclaimed, 'Oh God! How beautiful! ↗

— Ann Dillard

#pilgrim-at-tinker-creek #beauty

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#cold #cold iron #confine #fettered #first

I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box. ↗

— Pat Mastelotto

#box #boxes #fed up #i #like

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

#back #go #i #i can #realize

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. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#how #i #i am #keep #know

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#around #band #bricks #came #choir

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#democracy #good #good works #government #nobody