Quotes About Tool

#1. Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.

Henry Ford

#2. As Katha Pollitt puts it: US invasions have made the work of Muslim feminists much more difficult. The last thing they need is for women's rights to be branded as the tool of the invaders and occupiers and cultural imperialists.11

Nina Power

#3. The mistake people keep making is that if they find a wonderful new tool, like email, they have to give up all others. They don't. You have simply added another very useful means to your communications repertoire.

Judith Martin

#4. You're telling me that because of the Internet, and the availability of every experience, every whim, every tool, sudden everyone's an artist? But here's the thing: if everyone's an artist, then no one is.

Meg Wolitzer

#5. As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#6. I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.

Thomas Mann

#7. The main benefit of the book for the more experienced practitioners is as an evangelical tool. The book will give you some ways of expressing the value and importance of your work that you may not have had before.

Jesse James Garrett

#8. Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development.

Kevin Rudd

#9. Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake.

Geneen Roth

#10. Philosophy may serve as the bridge between theology and science. All atheism is a philosophy, but not all philosophy is atheism. Philosophy ('love of wisdom') is simply a tool depending on how one uses it, and in some cases, logically understanding the nature of God and existence.

Criss Jami

#11. Intuition is a powerful business tool. Use it.

Maggie Wilderotter

#12. Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.

Shulamith Firestone

#13. Satan is a tool of God's love in the sense that he forces us to see God's loving patience.

Pat Robertson

#14. Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

Maynard James Keenan

#15. We should start using the mind as a tool, he argues, instead of letting the mind use us, which is the normal state of affairs. When Descartes said 'I think, therefore I am,' he had not discovered 'the most fundamental truth', Tolle insists; instead, he had given expression to 'the most basic error'.

Oliver Burkeman

#16. History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

Ted Koppel

#17. I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can

John Sexton

#18. (A revolver is) just a tool, really, like stapler. A stapler that punch through a person. Pin them. Drive blunt metal through flesh and bone.

Mohsin Hamid

#19. Excuse is the tool of the incompetent. A monument of nothingness, and those that use it are not wise.

Paul Adefarasin

#20. A photographer needs to be a good editor of negatives and prints! In fact, most of the prints I make are for my eyes only, and they are no good. I find the single most valuable tool in the darkroom is my trash can - that's where most of my prints end up.

John Sexton

#21. Poetry isn't an efficient tool for preserving experience, any more than it's an efficient mode of communication, but who says that it should be efficient?

James Arthur

#22. There is no more powerful leadership tool than your own personal example.

John Wooden

#23. Panic bloomed in her mind and she seized it as a tool, compressing it to an edge with which to cut through her frightened immobility.

Stephen King

#24. In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets us use our brain power.

David Gerrold

#25. I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood.

Adam Savage

#26. I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

Steven Moffat

#27. One thing we know for sure is that the Web is a collaborative medium unlike any we've ever had before. We see people working together, playing together, interacting in social settings using these media. We hope that will emerge as the new tool for education.

Vint Cerf

#28. Choice is more than picking 'x' over 'y.' It is a responsibility to separate the meaningful and the uplifting from the trivial and the disheartening. It is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.

Sheena Iyengar

#29. Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.

Neville Brody

#30. I think of my body as a tool to do the stuff I need to do, but not the be all end all of my existence.

Lena Dunham

#31. A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

Dorothea Lange

#32. Laughter is a very underrated tool for healing.

Bronnie Ware

#33. Forget Ryan,' Heidi said dismissively. 'He's a tool.'
'I thought you liked him!'
'I did
until I saw how little convincing he needed from me to cheat on you. And then I realized, Ryan Dano is a tool.

Natasha Friend

#34. I've long seen failure as a tool, not an outcome.

Scott Adams

#35. You have an awareness of your body and how to use it and I think that if you can embody a character physically it's another really useful tool.

Mia Wasikowska

#36. Words are some of the most powerful and important things I know ... Language is the tool of love and the weapon of hatred. It's the bright red warning flag of danger
and the stone foundation of diplomacy and peace.

Ani DiFranco

#37. As we have all said, we understand that electronic surveillance is a vital tool in the war on terror. We all want to know when Osama bin Laden is calling: when he is calling, who he is calling, and what he is saying.

Chris Van Hollen

#38. By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

George Carlin

#39. I loved the playfulness of fashion. I think maybe that's why I became an actress. You put on one outfit and feel one way, and another one will make you feel another way. Clothes are a wonderful tool.

Melissa McCarthy

#40. I think improvisation is a technique and a tool. I think that even the best of them fail most of the time, and in the end, the audience is not interested in how you got there but in what you're saying. The more clearly and concisely and artistically you say it, the more effective it is.

Bernard Sahlins

#41. Hell, even I'm a little surprised by Nine
between this and our little heart-to-heart in the doorway earlier, I might have to upgrade him from total douche bag to minor tool.

Pittacus Lore

#42. When time itself turned into a work factor, personal calendars became a key work tool.

David Allen

#43. Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

Miranda Richardson

#44. An artist is merely a tool with which art molds itself.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#45. I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

Abraham H. Maslow

#46. Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open ...

Serge Daney

#47. Not everyone has the training to use every tool, and a weapon you don't know how to wield is wasted.

Cassandra Clare

#48. Ari had discovered a contraband Barbie bangle in her weekend case and had gone on an hour's rant that contained words like 'body fascism' and 'third-wave feminism', then made Ellie write out fifty times, 'Barbie is a toxic plastic tool of a patriarchal culture.

Sarra Manning

#49. Every month I do a webcast for 55,000 people, and it's a great tool, great communication vehicle.

Terry J. Lundgren

#50. Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a pure art form or a tool for the introspective examination of the human condition. I'm not entirely at ease with that self-description.

Charles Stross

#51. Religion is god's population-control tool

Siddharth Katragadda

#52. On Staten Island, there's a ship graveyard. I'm using that a lot, even for 'Under the Dome.' When I'm dissatisfied with a location scout, I go on Google Earth. It's an amazing tool.

Niels Arden Oplev

#53. Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment ... and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human race and even very likely for its survival.

Eliot Porter

#54. Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a look. It's all about your vocal instrument.

Felicia Day

#55. The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!

Ina Garten

#56. Science is a powerful tool, but like any tool, it doesn't care whether it hurts you. Fire warms us, cooks our food, protects us from predators, but it will burn us if we let it. Fire is more than happy to eat us all alive. Science is fire writ large.

Mira Grant

#57. I enjoy my John Deere tractor quite a lot. It's a tool that I must use to keep Mother Nature at bay. I have all kinds of things encroaching on my property.

Les Claypool

#58. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas. Eventually, that process of using my voice to bring ideas across became more complicated, and I felt I could use it more as an expressive tool.

M. Ward

#59. The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.

Lynn Lavner

#60. My body is my only tool, and spreading my legs open is my superpower.

Mia Asher

#61. when god hasn't time to fashion an instrument, sometimes he just makes a tool

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#62. Ask and visualize for what your intuition has guided you for because visualization is the strongest tool for manifestation.

Hina Hashmi

#63. When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

Nelson DeMille

#64. Looking up at the stars, he had accepted life as a medium for action. Something to wield like a tool. One's own life: an instrument for the shaping of the world.

Laini Taylor

#65. The human being is a very poorly designed machine tool. The human being excels in coordination. He excels in relating perception to action. He works best if the entire human being, muscles, senses, and mind, is engaged in the work.

Peter F. Drucker

#66. Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Deborah Bull

#67. The body can decay right in front of you, go from a tool that expresses your will to an anchor dragging you down to hell.

Daniel Polansky

#68. You see death is a tool to degrade and destroy people, I see it as a life lesson that I use to empower myself and I remind myself that the dead are still alive. However, only the ones who are good, not evil pieces of shit like you will enjoy peace of mind

Angel Ramon Medina

#69. The Bible teaches that we are to love people and use money, but we often get that reversed and you start loving money and using people to get more money. Money is simply a tool to be used for good.

Rick Warren

#70. It was a simple lesson, really. He could never, ever allow misplaced ideals to seduce him. He would not employ death as a tool.

Bonnie Dee

#71. Hatha yoga is a powerful tool for self-transformation. It asks us to bring our attention to our breath, which helps us to still the fluctuations of the mind and be more present in the unfolding of each moment.

Cyndi Lee

#72. The thing with computer-generated imagery is that it's an incredibly powerful tool for making better visual effects. But I believe in an absolute difference between animation and photography.

Christopher Nolan

#73. Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

Kathryn Bigelow

#74. Procrastination has become its own solution - a tool I can use to push myself so close to disaster that I become terrified and flee toward success. A more troubling matter is the day-to-day activities that don't have massive consequences when I neglect to do them.

Allie Brosh

#75. The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well.

Ivan Illich

#76. Business plans are the tool existing companies use for execution. They are the wrong tool to search for a business model.

Steve Blank

#77. I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.

Jamie Zawinski

#78. Anyway, no girl wants to bang a guy in a banana hammock. I don't care if you're built like a brick shithouse and hung like a freaking horse - if you're wearing a man-thong? You look like a tool.

Emma Chase

#79. Your mind is a wonderful tool for creating what your soul wants. Use the tool, don't let it use you.

Dan O'Donnell

#80. Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.

Nicolas Roeg

#81. The tools of their trade were simple, effective things: iron knuckles, saps and the like. But the iconic tool of the scuttler arsenal was a woven leather belt with a heavy iron or brass buckle used to decrease intelligence one wallop at a time.

S.C. Barrus

#82. Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.

Edward De Bono

#83. Because pornography is a tool of Satan that exploits and distorts our God-given sexuality, women - especially Christian women - need to understand the increasing threat of online pornography.

Donna Rice Hughes

#84. Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

Susan George

#85. Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely understood how the drug worked. It wasn't just a prop or an affectation. It was a tool for mental health.

Sylvia Brownrigg

#86. We have a long way to go to understand that web analytics is a thinking man's tool, not a solution unto itself. On the bright side, 73% of those surveyed might still figure out that web analytics can help them drive actionable insights one day.

Jim Sterne

#87. If the only tool we use to analyse what's valuable is a price tag, then those things that don't have price tags begin to look like they have no value.

Al Gore

#88. For to the arguments of great thinkers there is no end, the idea of argument itself being a tool to improve the mind, the sharpest of all tools, born of the love of knowledge, which is to say, philosophy.

Salman Rushdie

#89. As we move into unprecedented changes in our world, new and better tools are needed for meeting the challenges. The Michael teachings are one such tool.

Shepherd Hoodwin

#90. My sense of humor was a tool for me getting past my mother and father separating, my older brother having cerebral palsy, and the bullies in the schoolyard. I had to make them laugh to keep them off my ass. I brought that to my professional career.

Tracy Morgan

#91. I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium.

Carrie Mae Weems

#92. To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities of our lives gives us motivation for action. For you are not powerless ... You know why the hard questions must be asked. It is not altruism, it is self-preservation-survival.

Audre Lorde

#93. An artist's imagination is his greatest tool

Michael Jackson

#94. I hold the gun out from my body, my arms straight, just as Four taught me, when that was his only name. I used a gun like this to defend my father and brother from simulation-bound Dauntless. I used it to stop Eric from shooting Tobias in the head. It is not inherently evil. It is just a tool.

Veronica Roth

#95. 'The Daily Beast' competes in the highly Darwinian media world filled with hyper-smart, highly adaptive, tool-using people with opposable thumbs.

Tina Brown

#96. Locally lived hip-hop culture that is giving many of America's youth the tool they need to survive and thrive in America, in the face of public policy that have written too many young people off.

Bakari Kitwana

#97. I really believe that breath, in and of itself ... can become the ultimate self-healing tool.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

#98. I smiled. You mean like a psychic imprint? I know your assistant director of the Preternatural Division, and I mean no disrespect, but I never got the feeling you believed in magic as an investigative tool.'
From the book 9 Incarnate - Caitlin Diggs Series

Gary Starta

#99. The blog is certainly another tool for writers out there to break their way in. But being a blogger does not make you a great writer.

Julie Powell

#100. There was a young man from Stamboul, Who soliloquized thus to his tool: You took all my wealth And you ruined my health, And now you won't pee, you old fool.

Kurt Vonnegut