Tools Quotes

1837 Tools quotes by 1379 unique authors

That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact,… — Susan Vreeland
I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is… — Ayn Rand
And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the… — Paulo Coelho
Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles… — Audre Lorde
Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the… — James Allen
An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that… — Jim Davis
Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research tool. Go banging… — Alexander Shulgin
Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by… — Ayn Rand
Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring. — Clay Shirky
a king can only work with his best tools. — T.H. White
If you stumble over mere believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask… — Yann Martel
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can… — James Gleick
Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innumerable circumstances, and we, each… — R A Salvatore
Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning. — Richard P. Feynman
There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his… — Ayn Rand
I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects. But now a significant change is… — John Twelve Hawks
Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion,… — Terence McKenna
Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is… — Ayn Rand
The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument… — Friedrich August von Hayek
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone. — Franz Kafka
Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created. — Werner Heisenberg
To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail. — Michael Crichton
Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the… — Michael Crichton

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