P. J. O'Rourke

When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital.

American Comedian

Michael Dell

I can't ever remember being struck by lightning when making a big decision. It's always about taking in more and more data points and making tack adjustments as you figure it out. I call customers, suppliers, industry analysts and try to get as much information as possible.

American Businessman

Marilyn Minter

My entire philosophy of teaching is based on the notion that when an artist finds a certain process really effortless, that's probably what he or she should choose to do. So often, students take the opposite tack; they have no use for the skills that come easily to them.

American Artist

Nicole Maines

We tried our best to work with the school and with the other families in the school system, and we did a gradual transition. I started transitioning when I was in first grade, and every year we kind of tacked a new thing on to it.

American Actress

Van Heflin

I often come across a script I would like to do, but when it comes down to brass tacks I find the producer won't allow enough practice time.

Robert Crais

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

American Author

Loretta Swit

I haven't met a horse I didn't love. I love caring for them, cleaning them. I love doing my own tack and giving them treats.

Jonathan Ive

Often when I talk about what I do, making isn't just this inevitable function tacked on at the end.

English Designer

John Ashbery

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

American Poet

Les Dennis

My thing has always been to change tack, do something that challenges me.

Remember, it's a small nail used for fixing materials temporarily or in a less durable fashion.

Physical Object

Use this sense of 'tack' when discussing altering one's approach to solving problems.

Change Methods

It suggests a strategic shift in direction, often implying a thoughtful or clever adjustment.

Strategic Shift

In navigation, it refers to changing direction, usually against the wind in sailing.

Course Change

This is a specific sailing term and may not be relevant outside of maritime or wind-related contexts.

Sailors' Action

Tacking upwind is known as a challenging maneuver that requires skill and understanding of wind patterns.

Sailing Challenge

 So, in the lab, I've been creating art as a way to help me design better experiences for bleeding-edge technology. And it's been serving as a catalyst to beef up the more human ways that computers can relate to us. Through art, we're tacking some of the hardest questions, like what does it really mean to feel?

How we can teach...

 that people inherit and that people develop. So the Obama administration has taken a different tack on drug policy. We've developed and implemented a comprehensive plan to expand prevention services, treatment services, early intervention and recovery support.

Addiction is a disease....

 Those splinters and tacks feel real, they hurt your own feet and your own heart, but the mother is describing her life here, not her actual house. And hunger, and cold, exhausting work and poverty are what's also inside those splinters.

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 Twenty percent of kids do not have those relationships. They are what we call avoidantly attached. They have trouble relating to other people. They go through life like sailboats tacking into the wind -- wanting to get close to people,

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 And then tacked on at the end of it are about 15 years for retirement. And I thought it might be helpful to basically cut off five of those retirement years and intersperse them in between those working years.

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 yourself some corporate Psychopaths so I gave it a try wrote to the Enron people I said could I covered it for you in prison to find out if your Psychopaths they didn't reply so I changed tack I

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 get there I'm going to donate all my tack and all my ponies to heroes and horses so I believe this program is amazing and it's going to help a lot of veterans

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 worldwide now let me show you all these foot scanner actually works okay so I'm going to tack the cake here I'm not going to eat it and just going to make

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 the deep cover allows her to move faster than usual she changes tack her best weapon is surprise she could be anywhere

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 behind the deep cover allows her to move faster than usual she changes tack her best weapon

Tack

A short, sharp-pointed nail, often with a flat, broad head.

Approach or strategy towards a task or problem.

Often appears as...

A course or direction followed by a ship, aircraft, or vehicle.

Often appears as...

Attach or fasten with a tack or tacks.

Navigate a vessel diagonally across the direction of a flowing or blowing entity.

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