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Quotes About Equipment

There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.
~ Ben Carson
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.
~ Edward Witten
We had almost like our own little sports complex at the house. The driveway was like the pitching mound. We used to play one-on-one street hockey right there. My dad wanted to make sure we were ready to have some fun, so he was always out grabbing sports equipment.
~ Travis Kelce
Can anybody be given a great degree of creativity? No. They can be given the equipment to develop it-if they have it in them in the first place.
~ George Shearing
Our military sons and daughters that are placed in harm's way deserve the right equipment, the right training, and the right rules of engagement to win decisively on any field of battle.
~ Ryan Zinke
If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.
~ Tommy Chong
The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment.
~ Gever Tulley
My first climb was on lead; there were pitons, no bolts.
~ Ueli Steck
My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.
~ Annie Leibovitz
One of the main rules with my mom was if I broke a club, she was going to take it and I wouldn't get it back. So I made sure I kept all my clubs.
~ Rickie Fowler
I don't know how to use appliances. I mean, I use the coffee maker. But that's it.
~ Peter Eisenman
When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.
~ Frank Press
If you have good gear and shoes, you can go for long runs and sustain yourself for a longer duration.
~ Bhuvneshwar Kumar
I can't pick up a pair of new gloves like Alec Stewart or Mike Atherton. I have to get them sweaty and loose, and put extra stuff on my gloves to protect the fingers.
~ Nasser Hussain
Golf balls are sweet: dimpled and sometimes even smiling.
~ Steve Rushin
My point is, there's no sense trying to squeeze something out of your swing if you can let your clubs do the shotmaking for you.
~ Lee Trevino
I think one thing that helped the sound change, it's a real subtle thing; it's just one switch on my bass, it has three positions, and I usually boost the mid-range frequency, I lowered the frequency that I boost, and that goes out to the sound system, too.
~ Mike Gordon
I've used Fender Strats with Marshalls since forever, though since I last played London, I've switched to my YJM Seymour Duncan pickups, and I also have a Fender YJM overdrive pedal, which is fairly new.
~ Yngwie Malmsteen
We should be robustly assisting the Free Syrian Army with equipment and also with training.
~ Jack Keane
But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big guns and clumsy biplane bombers. It had not yet evolved the necessary rationale that old people and women and children are combatants equally with armed and uniformed young men. That is why, despite its sickening squalor and brutality, the Great War looks so innocent to modern eyes.
~ Richard Rhodes
Caldwell concluded that welding equipment and materials would cost no more than riveting, while the cost of labor would be reduced substantially.
~ Richard Rhodes
Teller prepared himself further at Compañia Hill: "I put on a pair of dark glasses. I pulled on a pair of heavy gloves. With both hands I pressed the welder's glass to my face, making sure no stray light could penetrate around it. I then looked straight at the aim point.
~ Richard Rhodes
The technicians worked around him now as though they expected to launch him into space.
~ Richard Stark
Having the right equipment is often the difference between success and failure. To insert a screw, a carpenter doesn't use a knife. When you're under anesthesia, you don't want your surgeon using a chainsaw. A climber on Mount Everest won't use dollar store equipment. Professionals are picky about using the right equipment as they know it can be dangerous if they aren't. Life can be dangerous, too, so it's essential that you use the right equipment.
~ Rick Warren