Colin Angle Quotes

I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.

I'm one of those guys who likes to piddle around in the garage and fix stuff.

I like fixing things.

I can fix dishwashers. I was brought up in a castle with no money and lots of imagination. I learnt a lot about plumbing at an early age.

I started to learn some common sense. Even just sort of day-to-day things. I started to cook a little bit more and try to learn to fix things around the house. If something breaks down, rather than call a guy, there's got to be more I can do.

A real man don't call the plumbers. If he gonna call himself a man, he needs to know how to fix it, on the spot

When I was four or five years old, my grandfather showed me how to build things, paint, saw. Through years of fixing bikes, repairing lawn mowers, I learned how things work.

I do change the odd lightbulb, and I fix the Internet when it goes down, because it's something I am really good at.

I want a guy who can clean my gutters and kill my spiders - who's simple yet layered.

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'

Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

Anytime you put a challenge out there, people come up with a creative solution on the software side.

I like the guy who reads. Being articulate is something that's very important to me. But you need to know how to chop wood and fix a car and do guy things. I didn't grow up with spectators. Nobody was a spectator.

I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.

I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.

I'm a DIY kinda guy.

My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him walking past with a step-ladder. He was always fixing things.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

In my mind, I am extraordinarily handy. But what that means is when I attempt to fix something, there's usually a five-minute period of experimentation, followed by a five-minute period of frustration, followed by a frantic phone call to a professional.

Some players are wonderful hitters of the ball, but they can't figure out ways to get out of trouble. Eighty percent of the time, there is a way. You just have to know how to look for it.

There's a great deal of poetry in working out how things work, cutting bits of metal, trying to mend stuff.

I learned to not be afraid to fix things that break.

My mom and dad had a store, and sometimes people would return broken stuff. I'd take it apart and reassemble it. At 16, I really understood the architecture of things.

I'm starting to feel like I can actually figure out how stuff works. I can actually pick stuff apart and have a chance of fixing it.

I see a problem and I invent some sort of solution to it.