Tools Quotes

The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing.

~ Philip Pullman

There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

~ Adriana Trigiani

Patriots must have the ideas and the tools so that we can recruit, sow the seeds of doubt, and take the fight to the enemy's safe place.

~ Mike Klepper

Problems are not roadblocks, but exercise tools.

~ Debasish Mridha

There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist—musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn. … No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

~ Mary Leakey

Instead of letting our emotions run amok with our minds, we can use our minds as tools that allow us to build realities that serve us better,and we attract what we are meant to attract because we are aware and self-empowered enough to choose most of the time.

~ Jay Woodman

In a conflict doesn't win who has more weapons but who knows best use for them

~ Válgame

I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of tremendous value.

~ Guido Van Rossum

I think people are dreaming big because they have the tools to dream big. I hope that people are dreaming big because it makes them feel good about their lives.

~ Peter Diamandis

I will teach people not only how to identify their goals and dreams, but subsequently give them the tools to make those dreams a reality.

~ Jillian Michaels

The more closely you get in touch with your dreams, the more able you are to make them real. The more vividly you consider how you want your world to be, the more real and effective tools you will have for making it so.

~ Ralph Marston

Humor can be one of our best survival tools.

~ Allen Klein

Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

~ Ayelet Waldman

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

~ Ben Okri

Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage.

~ Noah Feldman

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

~ Bill Gates

But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.

~ Jesse James Garrett

The education process is moving beyond the traditional classroom/lecture setting. More and more teachers are seeking tools and techniques to engage their classes and enrich their lessons. Video calling is one of these tools, as it removes barriers to communication and lets students move beyond the boundaries of their classrooms.

~ Tony Bates

People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem.

~ Deepak Chopra

I am a child of digital generation. I have done most of the records with Rilo Kiley on computers, on Pro Tools or other digital programs.

~ Jenny Lewis

When I got out of coaching, I had taught a class at the University of California, an extension class on football for fans. I was looking for tools. I was showing them films. I was going to write a textbook. Trip Hawkins came to me about making it a game for computers.

~ John Madden

Computers are great tools, but they need to be applied to the physical world.

~ Tony Fadell

China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.

~ Charles Bass

Starting early and getting girls on computers, tinkering and playing with technology, games and new tools, is extremely important for bridging the gender divide that exists now in computer science and in technology.

~ Beth Simone Noveck

Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated.

~ Margaret Wertheim

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

~ George Herbert

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

~ Eli Whitney

Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as those uncovered by our scientific heroes.

~ Luis Walter Alvarez

The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.

~ Thomas Eakins

As our technology evolves, we will have the capacity to reach new, ever-increasing depths. The question is what kind of technology, in the end, do we want to deploy in the far reaches of the ocean? Tools of science, ecology and documentation, or the destructive tools of heavy industry?

~ Philippe Cousteau

Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral.

~ Margaret Atwood

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.

~ Ray Kurzweil

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.

~ Peter Drucker

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

~ Ceelo Green

The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.

~ Michael K. Simpson

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

~ Henri Bergson

We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly believe that our intelligence gathering tools must enable us to collect the information we need to protect the American people.

~ John O. Brennan

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

~ Washington Irving

Learning how to understand how technology evolves, using tools like a Technology Road Map, is what you need more than anything to ride on top of the tsunami instead of being crushed by it.

~ Peter Diamandis

Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food.

~ Mark Hyman