Quotes About Tool

Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.

Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.

Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.

I often use humor as a tool in my writing, and sometimes that works and sometimes it sits alone just as a funny line.

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.

Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.

Meditation is an excellent habit and tool for transformation, however your 'practice' should eventually evolve into your natural primary state of being.

The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely, when you don't realize that it is only a small aspect of the consciousness that you are.

The more we learn about the workings of the body, the more we realize just how vast is the intelligence at work within it and how little we know. When the mind reconnects with that, it becomes a most wonderful tool. It then serves something greater than itself.

Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is completed, you lay it down. As it is, I would say about 8o to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful.

It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation... I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.

I don't think there is any mystery to understanding the passionate feelings people have for guns. Nobody really believes it's about maintaining a militia. It's about having possession of a tool that makes a person feel powerful nearly to the point of exaltation.

Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.

The interview is two things at once: a tool for research, and the opening of a narrative space.

You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.

Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down.

Now, when a negative thought comes up, I focus on its opposite, or if that's too extreme for me to comprehend at the moment, I change it to a question: "What would it feel like if . . . ?" And that has been a very powerful tool for me.

Theology is for Paul never merely a speculative exercise; it is always a tool for constructing community.

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

Akmon pulled a ratchet wrench from the tool belt and spun it like a noisemaker. "Oh, very nice! I'm definitely keeping this! Thanks, Blue Bottom!" Blue Bottom? Leo glanced down. His pants had slipped around his ankles again, revealing his blue undershorts. "That's it!" he shouted. "My stuff. Now. Or I'll show you how funny a flaming dwarf is." His hands caught fire.