Tools Quotes · Page 30

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

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

— Felicia Day

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

— Jennifer Hudson

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

— Brandon Bays

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

— Julie Klam

Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand--an extended application of its powers.

— Dion Fortune

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

— Warren Farrell

For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent…

— Leah Hager Cohen

Our Government is investing in stronger communities by supporting the important work of charities by reducing their administrative burden, encouraging charitable giving…

— Kevin Sorenson

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went…

— Damien Hirst

People reflect themselves in the work and [it] becomes a tool for communication and dialogue. You bring it out here and you…

— Jeppe Hein

We are always creating new tools and techniques to help people, but the fundamental framework is remarkably resilient, which means it must…

— John P. Kotter

On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends,…

— Philip K. Dick

'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is…

— Joe Clark

After your knife and your cutting board, quality pots and pans are the most important tools in your kitchen, and a good…

— J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

One of the ironies of a conference dedicated to all things digital and virtual is that the best ways to connect with…

— Ryan Holmes

I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system -…

— Andrew Weil

There is always this interesting relationship we have with technology. When we invented writing Socrates used to say it was going to…

— Jason Silva

Bodybuilding has been the tool that single-handedly taught a little black boy from the projects to use his mind to achieve success.…

— Kai Greene

“When I started writing I wanted the best tools. I skipped right over chisels on rocks, stylus on wet clay plates, quills…

— John Varley

It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within…

— Abram Hoffer

Tech stocks were the cubic zirconium of the market. They looked good and were sexy, but they just were a way for…

— Mark Cuban

The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands…

— Che Guevara

Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.

— Tariq Ramadan

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.

— Charles Bukowski

We've been merging with tools since the beginning of human evolution, and arguably, that's one of the things that makes us human…

— Franklin Foer

I play keyboards and Pro Tools, if you want to look at it as an instrument.

— Devin Townsend

Horrible events in life serve as catalysts for major changes in our life perspective and as teaching tools for helping others.

— Dannion Brinkley

We have to use the tools that we have at hand to ensure that we get food to people where they need…

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

The Internet has become a tool to pick on people and ruin someone's life. I don't think parents realize what's going on.

— Alexa Vega

We choose what and how we believe, and our beliefs are tools that we then use to make things happen ... or not.

— Sophia Amoruso

Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at…

— Natalie Goldberg

For me, the camera is like an entrance to the private lives of other people. And if you are curious like me,…

— Anders Petersen

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.

— Louise Hay

You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.

— Ken Jeong

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

— Serge Daney

Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.

— Anonymous

I don't feel [the] excitement you have when you first walk into a recording studio. It now feels like a tool.

— Jonathan Meiburg

The Internet is a very powerful tool; unfortunately its starting to get a little saturated.

— Theophilus London