Quotes About Tools

The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises.

The tools belong to the man who can use them.

Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.

Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works.

Most of us have the tools we need, we're just not sure how to use them.

Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to help you tell a story.

The most important gifts we can give our children are confidence in their ability to remake themselves again and again and the tools with which to do that job

...the book is a manifesto to make the Web atone for the sins of computers and regain a level of simplicity that can put humanity at peace with its tools once again.

Most birds are geniuses. We had one that became a pet; he learned to talk, use tools and solve problems.

I am beginning to see a large-scale introduction of various management tools, philosophies and practices in the service sectors and have a high hope that it will become a global trend.

I have played on many teams throughout my career, and I know when a team has the tools, and the right positive attitude towards winning.

I definitely think that movies have the possibility to be something positive, and are really becoming teaching tools for a lot of kids growing up.

From my time at Nokia, I've seen the 99% positive and occasionally negative impact that communication tools can have on people.

They'll come a time - in fact many times - when all the tools & techniques will fail you or desert you. Then - at last - is the moment to trust, use & follow your heart

Nothing is forever, if you have enough power tools.

It is not by regretting what is irreparable that true work is to be done, but by making the best of what we are. It is not by complaining that we have not the right tools, but by using well the tools we have. What we are, and where we are is God's providential arrangement - God's doing, though it may be man's misdoing; and the manly and the wise way is to look your disadvantages in the face, and see what can be made our of them.

You have a four-fold life to live: a body, a brain, a heart and a soul . . . these are your living tools. To use and develop them is not a task. . . . It is a golden opportunity.

This is our country, too, and we can goddam well control it if we learn to use the tools. —HST, 1969

New religionists, such as Williams, Dawkins, and Wilson, regard people and all other organisms as the helpless puppets, tools, or vehicles, of hidden purposive agents of more than human power and intelligence, whose only goal is to produce the largest possible number of their replicas in the next generation of organisms. But

These disturbances are the product of our human propensity to explore in teams, to develop new tools to expand our domain to places that are not part of our "natural" habitat.

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

Postmodernism is also simplistic in failing to see its own interpretation of the world (that all metanarratives are evil tools of oppression that must be deconstructed) as an alternative metanarrative.