Tools Quotes · Page 33

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

— James McBride

It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.

— Dag Hammarskjold

As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.

— Stewart O'Nan

Even labeling the tea party and left and right its dangerous, because it's - it's another ego separation tool.

— Doreen Virtue

We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to…

— Ryan Holmes

A family that knows how to play together has the tools to stay together.

— Warren Farrell

I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.

— Raekwon

To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents, - the tools…

— John Keats

Connecticut's public schools are among the best in the nation, but there's more that we can do to close achievement gaps so…

— Ned Lamont

But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have…

— Anne Sexton

This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan…

— Matt LeBlanc

What promotes math progress even more than new ideas are new technical tools and habits of thought that encapsulate existing ideas, so…

— Jim Propp

Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around…

— Bill Gates

To utilize social media tools effectively and properly, you must absolutely generate spontaneous communications in direct response to what others are saying…

— Aliza Sherman

Just as our roads and bridges are overdue for investment, so is the infrastructure for scientific research; that is, the body of…

— Oren Etzioni

When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies,…

— John O. Brennan

Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in…

— Bill Gates

A paradigm is a powerful theoretical and methodological framework which defines the working lives of thousands of intelligent and disciplined minds. And…

— John Naughton

Early Apple machines -- don't know how to answer what it was like since there were so few tools. Just had to…

— Bob Frankston

Fasts and vigils, the study of Scripture, renouncing possessions and everything worldly are not in themselves perfection, as we have said; theyare…

— John Cassian

As a director, you want to be really connected to every part of your set, from your actors all the way to…

— Eric Balfour

I think that intelligent forecasting (company revenues, earnings, etc.) should not seek to predict what will in fact happen in the future.…

— Peter Cundill

We may treat of the Soul as in the body - whether it be set above it or actually within it -…

— Plotinus

In my first 100 days, I'll work with both parties to make the biggest investment in good-paying jobs in decades. We'll also…

— Hillary Clinton

“I assume that defects are weapons in God's arsenal through which he uses to humble and draw mankind closer to himself.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.

— David LaChapelle

Though we endow them with human features - heads, faces, heels, toes - golf clubs are profoundly inhuman tools.

— Steve Rushin

He believes that words can be a powerful healing tool if used with loving intention, to uplift, encourage and inspire.

— John McLeod

Through the Fellows Program, Acumen Fund prepares future global leaders with the tools necessary to drive significant social change.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

“what I have learned along the way is that everyone has to help with the tools that have been given to him”

— Ricky Martin

I'm a producer in the old-school way - not just some slacker working on Pro Tools.

— Michael Gira

“Thought for the day: Twitter...140 character limit...must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers...”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

I grew up watching movies that just transformed my vision, not just in cinema, in life, and you discover that this -…

— Pablo Larrain

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

— Robert Moog

I'm going to use the White House and every tool at my disposal as your president to make the case that patriotism…

— Hillary Clinton

Empathy is one of our greatest tools of business that is most underused.

— Daniel Lubetzky

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.

— Roy H. Williams

When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his…

— Edward Weston

As an actor, you always use the tools of who you are and your experience of what you have to offer.

— Jessie Mueller

Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.

— Barry Ritholtz