Tools Quotes · Page 15

Credibility is a basic survival tool.

— Rebecca Solnit

Finding the tool is often half the battle.

— Andy Rooney

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

— Michael Bergin

I'm just a tool, I'm just a big, hard tool.

— Robert Pattinson

Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.

— Neville Brody

The ego is a tool. You don't separate it. It's a tool for the spirit.

— Ram Dass

Fear is the tool of a man-made devil

— Napoleon Hill

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

— Audre Lorde

Workflow is understanding your job, understanding your tools, and then not thinking about it any more.

— Merlin Mann

I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.

— Regina Spektor

It's real simple, if we don't give our schools the tools to compete then we'll never improve.

— Jim Justice

Different people can photograph the same things with the same tools and create such different images.

— John Paul Caponigro

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

— Sarah Shahi

Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use…

— Peter Drucker

Providing the tools for a great start in life will yield dividends for generations to come.

— Kay Ivey

Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can…

— Nicolas Cage

The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the…

— Patti Smith

Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools…

— Nancy Gibbs

I collect old rusty hand tools and sharpen and polish them, then use them to build things out of walnut and cherry…

— John Grogan

The breath is seen to be the key between the emotional state, the mental state and physical state. It is perhaps the…

— Paul Harvey

I'm a geeky actor, in the way that I like the craft of acting. I trained as a stage actor and was…

— Alan Tudyk

The study of yoga makes me inspired. And then the teaching of yoga makes it that much more real. The sense that…

— Rodney Yee

The best thing we can do is give students the tools for constructing their own identities - powerful new tools like African…

— Ron Eglash

We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We…

— Richard Bach

We need financial regulation that allows businesses and the banks they use to have access to the tools that help keep prices…

— Jim Himes

Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God…

— Orson Scott Card

I'm vile and perverted. I'm obsessed and deranged. I've existed for years but very little has changed. I'm the tool of the…

— Frank Zappa

I'm really into moderation. Too much of anything will harm you in the end. Too much sugar. Too much pasta. I'm into…

— Tori Amos

Like it or not - and often we don't - power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office…

— Tom Peters

I credit that eight years of grammar school with nourishing me in a direction where I could trust myself and trust my…

— George Carlin

A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves…

— Edsger Dijkstra

To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.

— Michael Crichton

Litigation is a tool used by negotiators.

— Gerard I. Nierenberg

Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.

— Irving Azoff

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

— Lord Salisbury

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

— Anonymous

As a restaurateur, my palate is one of my most important tools

— Joe Bastianich

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

— David Allen

[Languages] became a tool that served me my whole life.

— Trevor Noah