Tool Quotes

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In the end nobody knows how it's done â€” how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool… — David Hockney
My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within… — Bill Buxton
In the war against breast cancer, we have the ability to arm ourselves with knowledge and education is a powerful tool. By taking action and… — Diahann Carroll
This little four-string songwriting tool started changing the way I brought songs to the group. — Eddie Vedder
We will direct every resource at our command - every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence,… — George W. Bush
The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it… — Brett Weston
Theres no hope, none, of ever talking about it without pissing somebody, if not everybody, off...By the end of this hour I will be seen… — Anthony Bourdain
Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these… — Taylor Dane
With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I'm not a marketing tool,… — Jeremy Lin
I have become a marketing tool and I feel very uncomfortable with that. There's no space for me to express myself. — Janet McTeer
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras,… — Ben Okri
War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy. — George F. Kennan
Music is worth doing just because. It doesnâ€™t have to be justified by some political point of view, and itâ€™s kind of insulting to the… — Elliott Smith
Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man. — Erich Fromm
A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator. — Homer
Perception is a tool that's pointed on both ends. — Hannibal
I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer. — Kent Beck
I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage — Anne McCaffrey
Are you a personâ€”with volition and maybe some stubbornness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to do something surprisingâ€”or are you… — Stephen R. Donaldson
One day, the Devil decided to go out of business. His tools, therefore, being for sale, were put on display; and Malice, Jealousy, and Pride… — James Keller

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