Tweak Quotations

Objective leaders identify their unproductive mental models and tweak them for greater effectiveness.

Most of the time in the 21st century, we dominate our surroundings: We tweak the thermostat, and the temperature falls one degree. We push a button, and Taylor Swift sings for us. It's the opposite in the wilderness, which teaches us constantly that we are not lords of the universe but rather building blocks of it.

For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it and tweak it.

If someone is not happy with one thing we either tweak it until they're happy with it. We all know where that line is, where you have to be three hands up.

Once you know the fundamentals of cooking, then you don't need to follow a recipe - you just know what herbs go well or what meats, or what combination of what goes together, and then you can just branch out from there. But if there's something specific that I want to make, I work on the recipe and tweak it to my own.

That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit so that it looked like I was trying to add something instead of keeping the status quo.

If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they're reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

A lot of directors in my experience are very receptive. They see what you do first, and then they want to find a place to put the camera, and they tweak you here and there.

Since truffle oil and caviar aren't always in the budget, learning to tweak and enhance just a few ingredients and flavor combinations can help you transform those ordinary ingredients into the extraordinary!

I had a friend who was a plastic surgeon, so he would do little things. I never had, like, a full thing. So I would go in maybe once every two or three years, and he'd do a little here, a little there; tweak you, like you tweak your car. Then I became the plastic surgery poster girl.

We believe that candidate is a glaring example of what is wrong with the system. We think the process is a good process, we're just asking for a tweak here and there.

With these new facilities, the key is how they look after three or four years. This place gets better every year. With their input and ours, we tweak things every year. It makes it easy to get 'B' games. People love coming here and playing 'B' games because we have the best 'B' game facility in baseball.

Writing for myself and writing for another artist are two very different experiences. When I handle both the story and the art, I have full control. I can endlessly tweak every word and every line.

When things aren't going well, you do want to tweak things. You want to change practice and change your routine. The change of scenery, the field, the facility, that could be a positive.

Meat packers have suffered the worst sustained losses in history, and I would not be surprised by any decisions that are made. Having said that, the major companies are doing their utmost to attempt to tweak their existing operations.

One of the things we have tried to do is work on a culture to increase student achievement for all students. I saw in the last school I worked in, the enormous benefit of looking at student work so we can tweak our curriculum.

Obviously, we have to tweak our defense and hopefully score points off that. We have the ability to run.

Never assume you have everything pegged. Never tweak that last duck, and pat yourself on the back, and take everything else for granted. Because that's when god rips the mike out of your hand and says, out of nowhere, you might not come back from Dead Man's Curve. Say what? That's when you wake up in darkness, fumbling for the light switch.

Right now, I don't think my luck is that bad that I can tweak it. At least I hope not.

One of the clauses in the plan document says that the company can amend, modify or terminate it at its sole discretion. For many years, they would only tweak insurance a little bit. Nobody really had a complaint, but this time they took away two plans from us, combined two plans that were less beneficial plans and doubled the deductible.

We've got to tweak the nose a little. We're talking tenths of a percent - not a whole lot.

Good hitters don't tweak too much and they adjust very well. They try to recapture a feeling. With Jason and his makeup, (a slump) isn't going to last long. Good hitters can figure things out quickly, and he's a good hitter.

We may tweak things a little bit. When we get runners on base, we have to get them around to score. We will do what ever it takes.

Jon?s probably at a point where we can start to tweak some things. It?s all part of the development. That cutter he throws looks like he?s tossing darts.

I thought we had a great turnout. We were hoping for about 1,000-1,500, but it's the first time we've had something like this on campus. We might tweak a few things next year, but we're looking forward to doing something like this again.

I think we'll tweak our roster this year. I don't see any major upgrades that we need.

I went up to hit a linebacker, felt it kind of tweak a little bit. Then I went up to get in my stance, I kind of collapsed, that's when I knew something was wrong with it. I couldn't put any weight on it.

I think football is a more interesting 'watch' on television than in the arena. Every year, we tweak the information we give fans. We give information you can never get at the stadium.

I said, 'Lets be patient, lets tweak a few things,' and I think we did and that's why we've been successful.

Our scoring punch. We don't have a go-to guy right now. It's not going to be a matter of a little tweak that's going to fix it. Teamwork is going to score our goals.

Some people are probably already counting us out, maybe not even picked us to make the playoffs next year, who knows. I think we need to tweak a few things here and there. The thing that won us a Cup two years ago was just how aggressive we played. I think at times this year we were just passive in our play.

Mark has a slight hamstring tweak and we don't want to risk it developing into a bad one,

It felt exactly the same as last time. I felt a tweak in the knee and then I heard it pop.

That?s the language that will be put in front of them, though the board may want to tweak that name. Different groups may get into it in more detail, and there may be a tweak here or there to change the nomenclature. All indications are that it will be supported.

You can drag something onto a page, preview it to see what it looks like, tweak it and put it into production very quickly. You can do very useful things with not a lot of lines of code.

You just want to hear me say it. Of course there's adjustments, there's always adjustments. Teams put in new plays. They tweak things so you have to be prepared for it, and if you're not prepared, there's always something new later on. We could play them 20 times and you'd make adjustments 21 times. That's the way it goes.

We have to tweak it. We just do not have the technology that can enable that, but we're working on it.

We'll tweak our offense to work with the personnel we have. And we have to work to get the right people shots.

We had to. You have guys that tweak a hamstring and walk off the field. But any time you've got to be helped off the field, you're not going to be making your next start. There's no reason to take a chance on hurting him and pushing that. That to me was no question. There's no way in the world he's going to be able to go in time.

We have this theory. It's part of the corporate culture. You try, you tweak it, tweak it again. Whatever you try, you check it out, take new action, go through the cycle. You keep tweaking. That's one of the hallmarks of our success.

We had to make improvements to get where we needed to be. Playing those 25-game schedules, you don't have a lot of practice times to tweak things.

We still have very little understanding of how we can tweak form or shape at the genetic level. We certainly haven't unlocked those secrets.

Web banking lets you monitor your spending, tweak your budget, schedule payments, and more, particularly if you marry your online bank with the personal-finance management tools available online.

We're a tweak here and a tweak there from really being in trouble.

We do a lot of reading. I've got a stack of old Irish cookbooks from my mom, and basically you tweak it from there.

We start out the year like no one knows anything about wrestling, then we tweak the more advanced kids. And no one here will lose a match because they are out of shape.

This system has been in place for quite some time and so we'll work within that system and tweak it. In certain situations I've got to make sure there is a semblance of balance. You've got to have some things in there that keep the defense honest.

We thought it best to go with science fiction because you can tweak reality and the audience can suspend belief.

We think we can help him in some cases. He's always had a great arm. Mechanically, there's always something a pitching coach can pick up to tweak a little bit. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

We were in good shape when we opened at the Prince, since we had done numerous workshops and done the show in Westport several years before, but having the audience there allowed us to tweak several areas where we had several choices as to how to do things, ... There will certainly be more tweaks and there were a few ideas we never got the chance to implement at the Prince which we can't wait to try. Also, because of budgetary reasons, the Prince essentially utilized half the planned set, so we're excited about doing the show with the full set.

We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients.

This was broadly expected, to say the least, ... There's very little likelihood that you can tweak this to get it to work.

We will tweak some things and shuffle things offensively. Defensively, the injury isn't as much as a concern because we have some kids that can play the four spot.

Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.

There's more flexibility in the cartoon world than there is in video games. In video games, if I tweak a line, I could screw up the work of countless other people with my whim.

The word 'measured' could very readily disappear now. They'll probably tweak the words one more time in the direction of being that much more open-ended, but maybe with the emphasis on 'ended' than 'open.

I've turned it more than once and it's pretty stretched out. All it needed was a quick tweak and it was OK.

Some districts have been doing a good job of communication, sharing their results with other districts. Others haven't been doing that so well. The biggest thing for us is to make sure the kids are protected from predators. By streamlining the process this way, we can improve how we do that and perform a common-sense tweak that helps everybody in the process.

Some say the rankings are as complex as the BCS. We pride ourselves in trying to tweak it each year and trying to develop it.

Once we have done that accreditation, it is a case of maintaining it. You are having to check that any tweak you are making to an existing product is not affecting Raising Standards.

You've got to tweak your game to the rule changes. Now it's a flag if you turn into a guy while trying to make a play. It didn't used to be that way. I got flagged one time for turning my head. 'You didn't turn it away,' the official said. Now why would I want to turn away from a ball that was coming my way?

Your woods, irons and wedges are built with specific lengths and lie angles, which demand that you stand to the ball a little differently for each one. The secret is to know which elements of your address position remain constant, and which ones you have to tweak to match the club in your hand.

This is an evolving site. We are going to continue to tweak it. We would hope to be able to include that type of travel time information.

They're continuing to tweak on those kinds of things to make sure that we have it all done exactly right.

It's typical of the piecemeal approach the governor and the legislature has taken to property tax reform. They tweak something here or there, but it's never a big-picture approach.

It's not just a little tweak or a minor strain. It's disappointing...he was ahead of where he was last year.

It shouldn't be a race to the moon. This shouldn't be about one state being compared to another, but we all know that's what happens. And that gives states incentives to tweak their formulas so that they look better.

Everybody has to be on the same page and everybody has to have confidence. Teams are starting to tweak their defenses where they might not guard two or three guys on our team, thinking they don't have the confidence. We need all five guys to have the confidence in order for our offense to run as smoothly as it has in the past.

It's way too early to pass judgment. It's still got flaws. They need to tweak it. Is it better than it ever was? I think the verdict is still out on that.

I wanted to try to go as big as I could and tweak my grabs hard.

They came close to getting it right the first time. We'll just tweak some things.

I'm really curious to see first the 10 days of previews, and the chemistry of the stage and the audience. Do they embrace the story and the actors and all the special effects? I want to see how they respond to the totality. If it doesn't work, we will tweak and fine-tune and address moments of weakness. If anything, that's the area we will be in.

I'm actually in the process of studying film and trying to tweak a couple of things in my game. Whereas I may have gone two dribbles and tried to go all the way to the bucket, I may try to go two dribbles and try to pull. The difference from being a good player and a great player is consistency, so that's something I want to work on.

I'm trying to tweak things, ... because we've got to get our running game going. It's the foundation for us.

I'm approaching things the same way this spring as I did last year. I know I'm not competing for a job, but I'm always competing with myself. I'm always looking to get better, always looking to tweak things and find a way to improve.

In regards to the play, I'll just keep watching it and go out on the road every now and then to see how it's going and to tweak it to make it better.

How can we tweak our plan to attract the kind of employees we want and need?

For the players it's fantastic that they're doing well. Hopefully, for them, they go to the World Cup. I played in one (in Mexico in 1986) and it's a great experience. For us, it's the same plan, just with different people. The personnel changes and we'll just tweak it to make it suit and to make it work.

Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

The first two series of ones vs. ones, we played them pretty evenly on the long field drives. We forced a couple of turnovers. We just got to tweak it here and there and we'll be OK.

Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.

When you hire somebody, you shouldn't have to tell them [a lot of what] to do; you hire them because you like their work and all you've got to do is tweak them a little bit.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?