Quotes About Tool

Working with flint, he had often caused small sparks, but he thought of it as the living spirit of the stone released as part of the process.

We need to crush the Invisible Hand. The economy isn't a natural phenomenon. It is just a tool or a mean, that should be dedicated to one only goal; the pursuit of global prosperity.

What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain."

I always carry a pocketknife in my pocket for opening boxes, cutting a string, or whatever little thing comes up.

The nail knot can be used to permanently attach a 6-inch section of heavy monofilament to your fly line, with a perfection loop on the other end. This makes it easy to change leaders, with a loop-to-loop connection. You can also attach the butt section of your leader directly to the fly line with this knot. It helps to have a tube to tie this knot, and makes it much easier to do than with just a nail.

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Let yourself be second-guessed. When you make any tool, people use it in ways you didn't intend, and this is especially true of a highly articulated tool like a programming language.

An athlete from a rough sport cannot find a better power tool than the kettlebell, period.

The kettlebell delivers extreme all-around fitness. All-purpose strength. Staying power. Flexibility. Fat loss without the dishonor of aerobics. All accomplished in one to two hours of weekly training. All done with one compact and virtually indestructible tool that can be used anywhere.

Dissembling is a common tool of the anger junkie.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

My body is my art, and it's also the tool that I use to make money.

Art is a tool by which society extends its perception.

Art is a tool that isnt used enough to effect change.

I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.

I think that the most exciting thing is to find a tool, like an art, with an opportunity to share. Real roots come from everywhere in the world. Why call is congress? Because it is a congress.

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It means that money is ephemeral, moving from person to person," Hamood said. "It's a tool. Don't let it get into your heart or your soul." Mokhtar spent a year with Hamood

The real challenge is to make good communication a handy and well-used tool. Then you are likely to pick it up and use it without thinking. —MAX DEPREE

A great hammer doesn't make a great carpenter; but a great carpenter will always want to have a great hammer.

Language is the gateway to the human world. (...) Language is far older than civilization. (...) The fact that it is possible to teach apes to ride bicycles, but impossible to teach them to talk, suggests that it is the use of language rather than the use of tools which is the essential characteristic of humanity. The word, not the sword or the spade, is the power that has created human culture.

The Handy Hammer Syndrome, in which the hammer in your hand makes everything look like a nail.

Self-hypnosis was such a wonderful tool. She could always tell when a student or client actually got it. They were awestruck by what their minds could achieve. The first time that levitating sensation happened to her it was like she'd discovered she could fly.

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 be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.