Tools Quotes · Page 25

In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.

— Rodrigo Santoro

When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

— George Eliot

Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.

— Martin Seligman

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

— Jerry Saltz

I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool.

— Ivan Reitman

Avoidance is a great tool to get away from food in my face all day long.

— Jennifer Hudson

Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.

— Felicia Day

Relaxing, embracing, surrendering, trusting - these are the only tools of a lover of truth. So, turn from warrior into a lover.

— Brandon Bays

Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools:…

— Anonymous

Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that…

— Thomas Nagel

The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love…

— Sharon Creech

I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me…

— Natalia Vodianova

The 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making.…

— Harrison Schmitt

If you go to YouTube and look up 'grief' you can find them and it's just an unbelievable tool for an actor…

— Aaron Eckhart

A movie like 'Transcendence' may be pertinent in its political reverberations of all computer data held in a cloud and monitored by…

— Richard Corliss

My book, Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research is about how researchers use this method and how to write up their oral history…

— Patricia Leavy

Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writing…

— Anonymous

The entertainment industry, the advertising industry have taken [the] tools from the art world and made themselves much more politically potent. We…

— Jeff Koons

Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the…

— Madhuri Dixit

We do not need a heavy theoretical thumb on the scales. What's important is how the traditional sources of law and legal…

— Diane S. Sykes

[Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers] A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with…

— Jack London

Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats…

— Annie Dillard

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its…

— James Gleick

What to do Before Your Book Launch is the new invaluable tool for writers. There is so much to know and now…

— Julie Klam

The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the…

— Agnes Varda

You've got to deal with the tools you have in hand. I'm a firm believer in that.

— Roisin Murphy

Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us.

— Joni Eareckson Tada

The blog is certainly another tool for writers out there to break their way in. But being a blogger does not make…

— Julie Powell

Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.

— Eric S. Raymond

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a…

— Robert Hughes

You know 'Ninotchka?' I recommend it. It's kind of a mess, too. It was before, you know, we got slick editing tools,…

— Jane Lynch

The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.

— Donald Knuth

Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today

— Nancy Duarte

Styles come and go, design goes on forever: solving communication problems with new tools applied to the same old common sense.

— Ivan Chermayeff

Too often people are being left without the tools they need to get themselves back into work.

— Liz Kendall

I collect as many acoustic guitars as I need for a specific purpose. Acoustic guitars are really just tools for me.

— Joe Bonamassa

Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

— Francis Bacon

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

— Stephen King

I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It's not an underground tool for me. It's my whole life.

— Lady Gaga