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Quotes About Tools

You show people playing poker or hacking into a computer; it feels so significant in the script, and then when you see it on the screen, it loses something. But there's something about cooking - food being prepared is incredibly captivating. It became just a fun box of tools to use as a director.
~ Jon Favreau
My approach to 'Eastenders' is the same as my approach to film and the same approach to theatre. Whatever I do, I use the same skills and tools.
~ Steve McFadden
For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
~ Pat Metheny
Looking ahead, we're doubling down on our commitment to building the most advanced tools and technology to take our creators and players into the metaverse of the future.
~ David Baszucki
If the fiscal cliff occurs, I don't think the Federal Reserve has the tools to offset that event.
~ Ben Bernanke
I've been given the tools necessary to be a great musician, a great entertainer, and great person that's gonna inspire everyone.
~ Trevor Jackson
As someone who's built business, I take tariffs and their effects very seriously and would only employ such negotiation tools when absolutely necessary.
~ Mike Braun
In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.
~ Michael Nutter
I think we're all very curious about our own minds, but we just may not have the tools to channel that.
~ Ariel Garten
Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.
~ Nat Friedman
I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.
~ Mitch Kapor
We were given clear concrete tools. The course did a great job demystifying the art of fiction writing and fostering confidence. The instructor brought complex concepts down to earth. I will miss coming here every week.
~ Miguel Ferrer
My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts.
~ Bill Scott
I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient.
~ Bill Joy
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.
~ Mike Simpson
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
~ Bjarne Stroustrup
It is clear we can make reforms to better ensure we are giving law enforcement all of the tools they need while maintaining the appropriate safeguards to protect the very freedoms we cherish.
~ Leonard Boswell
Our communication space is very fragmented today. We have a million different tools for different things with lots of different kinds of overlaps. The most natural way to try and solve that problem is to take all those different tools and try to make them smaller and fit into a single package and maybe integrate them across the boundaries.
~ Lars Rasmussen
First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs.
~ Ed Markey
Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools.
~ David Soul
If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.
~ Billy Higgins
Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples.
~ John Searle
If our main goal is to connect emotionally, we should want to have as many tools as we possibly can to achieve that goal. The more abilities that we have, the more choices we can make musically.
~ Ken Hill
I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.
~ Louis Leakey