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Fiddling Quotes

Tinkering, stalling, and the line between the two.

Several lines here treat fiddling as wasted motion: whiteboards full of ideas instead of an actual launched Business, or a mirror-checking hour that never quite earns its keep.

At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what...

Quotes by Roy Harper

Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery...

Quotes by Rick Perry

If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit.

Quotes by Paul Waner

Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead...

Quotes by Naveen Jain

Acoustic Guitar Quotes

One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try...

Quotes by Jonathan Brandis

What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things...

Quotes by John Connolly

I always think I should try to get to bed early, but then I can't stop myself from watching telly and fiddling around on the net.

Quotes by Jenson Button

I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a hook or some sort of melodic line. That's something that I do habitually.

Quotes by James Mercer

I was a hotshot as a junior. When I was 18, I really got into fiddling around. I completely lost interest in golf, and I guess all I could think about was going to college, getting married and having babies.

Quotes by Hollis Stacy

Always Quotes

In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.

Quotes by Gary Hamel

It sounds boring, but I'm such a guitar junkie and a gear junkie. I'm always fiddling with my stuff. It's relaxing to me... I'm always pulling my stuff apart, getting my pedal board out and fiddling with it or changing...

Quotes by Frankie Ballard

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

Quotes by Edmund Wilson

Grimes is the extreme version of doing everything yourself. I think this is impressive, because she is fiddling with things I couldn't fiddle with, all the technical stuff. I know what I want to do, but I wouldn't do it...

Quotes by Christine and the Queens

I was a history and government major at Ohio State University, and I've spent a lot of time just fiddling around with who the next president's going to be, over the years, or who would I like to see in...

Quotes by Bobby Knight

Another Time Quotes

Europe needs us just as much as we need Europe and it's time to stop fiddling for a solution, it's time to implement the solution.

Quotes by Betty Boothroyd

I probably have a club in my hands 360 days a year, one way or another, playing with friends or just fiddling around or hitting balls.

Quotes by Arnold Palmer

I never bothered with cars. I was probably one of the few kids in school who didn't run around with hot-rod magazines. As I would be at home fiddling with my guitar, they would be fiddling with a car engine.

Quotes by Angus Young

Frequently Asked Questions

What does fiddling mean across these quotes?
It swings both ways, sometimes it's wasted motion like endless whiteboard brainstorming instead of launching a real idea, and other times it's a small, almost restless personal habit.
Why would someone look up quotes about fiddling?
The word captures a very relatable tension between tinkering productively and just stalling, so people search it when they want language for either side of that habit.
Is there a business-focused quote about fiddling?
Yes, one warns against fiddling too much with a plan instead of testing it in the real world, and another argues creative success means resisting the urge to fiddle with a formula that already works.
Does any quote describe fiddling as a personal habit rather than work?
One does, admitting to standing in front of a mirror fiddling for an hour, and another confesses to meaning to sleep early but fiddling around on the net instead.
Which page covers the business side of this in more depth?
The Business quotes page covers that side in more depth.

Others flip it into a creative warning against fiddling too much with a working formula, and the familiar confession of meaning to sleep early but fiddling around online instead.