Tools Quotes

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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
To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation — Harvey Keitel
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
We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and… — 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… — Unknown Author
...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
There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding their complexity. If… — Leslie Lamport
I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools. — Pope Benedict XVI
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
At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the subject of education,… — Henry Adams
To me it seems pretty obvious that it would be simple to build a business around helping people achieve autonomy, a feeling of competence and… — Tara Hunt
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
Letting users control your site can be terrifying at first. From day one we were asking ourselves, "What is going to be on the front… — Kevin Rose
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

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