Tools Quotes

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for.

Reason is a tool to help us better understand and defend our faith; as Anselm put it, ours is a faith that seeks understanding.

Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression

We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.

I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools.

Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper

The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure.

Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision.

I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.

I feel that religion can be used as a tool to guide your life and help you connect with other people.

Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.

The ego is a tool. You don't separate it. It's a tool for the spirit.

Tools have their own integrity.

The strength of his will was the tool of his trade.

When you find your way you cannot be scared. You need to be brave enough to take wrong steps. The deceptions, failures, lack of enthusiasm, are tools that God places in our way to reveal the path.

Montefiore's impression of Jesus was wrong. Jesus loved the Pharisees, although He denounced them publicly. And I love the Communists, as well as their tools in the Church, although I denounce them.

On a scale of one to 10, I'd rate my body confidence as a good seven. Everyone has their hang-ups, but I see my body as a training tool and I feel good about it.

Food is one of the great organizing tools.

I think we have a lot of tools, a lot of skills to do certain things.

I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.

The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children

In Soviet-Russia the Jew is forging the tool with which he wants to enslave Europe.

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

What I don't like about the way the media portrays religion is that they seem to weaponize it and use it as a tool to divide people.

Everyone is a creative agent. ... The tools are your imagination and your imagination is limitless.

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.

Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.

Meetings get a bad rap, and deservedly so - most are disorganized and distracted. But they can be a critical tool for getting your team on the same page.

Marshall's crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition.

Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.

Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become defence mechanisms... against the unconscious.

Presentations are the most amazing persuasion tool available in organizations today

Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.

The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace.

Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of the world.

A party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away.

The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!

Alienation is perhaps the most effective tool of control in America, and every reminder of our real connectedness weakens that tool.

Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor.

I made so many recordings with junky mics and crappy mixing consoles, you have to use what your tools are and in some ways that's been inspirational.

You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.

If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.

When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

The Postal Service needs tools to modernize and compete. That is why today I am a cosponsor of H.R. 22, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.