Tool Quotes

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English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have… — Leon Uris
A party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away. — Shintaro Ishihara
Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on… — Harriet Lerner
Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening,… — Jean Anouilh
Testimony is a result of choice, not circumstance. In all seasons of my life, testimony has been a conscious choice - and this choice has… — Elaine L. Jack
The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences. — Albert Einstein
A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its use.… — Edsger Dijkstra
In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the recognition… — Tony Hoare
One purpose of CRC cards [a design tool] is to fail early, to fail often, and to fail inexpensively. It is a lot cheaper to… — Cay S. Horstmann
...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every… — Donald Knuth
Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct it to write… — Natalie Goldberg
Like it or not - and often we don't - power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the… — Tom Peters
When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter… — Todd Solondz
The use of 'conspiracy theory' as a derogatory - as an epithet almost - is something the propagandists have perfected over the decades, and it's… — Chris Sanders
The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management. — Charles Edwards
What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool… — Michael Shermer
Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is… — Irwin Shaw
Media literacy is not just important, it's absolutely critical. It's going to make the difference between whether kids are a tool of the mass media… — Linda Ellerbee
It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next five… — Abram Hoffer
Linguistics is our best tool for bringing about social change and SF is our best tool for testing such changes before they are implemented in… — Suzette Haden Elgin

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