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Quotes About Tools

Memories can be tools for change; they don't have to be weapons used against us, or baggage we have to drag around.
~ Jeanette Winterson
If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.
~ Aristotle
When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.
~ Edward Weston
Everyone in my family used to work with some kind of tool in their hands every day. That's what we do. That's what I did before I got into acting.
~ Matt LeBlanc
Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.
~ Alan Chadwick
Industry is not a collection of machines and tools and buildings. It is a social entity that has the responsibility of realizing the happiness of those who work in it.
~ Luis A. Ferre
The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.
~ Tony Kushner
Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don't use my work to further the tools.
~ Brian McKnight
In a certain way, you get some new tools to work with, but I don't know if it ultimately makes the creative process any easier.
~ David Byrne
If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with a single wrench.
~ Dean Koontz
I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.
~ Jimmy Wales
In the 'Test Kitchen', I have a strict knife sharpening process.
~ Sohla El-Waylly
An organisation is always a very dynamic situation, you always need to improve yourself and organisation is one of the tools you've got.
~ Mattia Binotto
anything is possible with the right tools and good friends
~ Unknown
And so we place the burden of remaining pure on lesser shoulders? … Do you really believe the Jedi should be the tools of such frail [government] institutions?" - Jacen Solo
~ Troy Denning
That being said, experiential team exercises can be valuable tools for enhancing teamwork as long as they are layered upon more fundamental and relevant processes. While each of these tools and exercises can have a significant short-term impact on a team's ability to build trust
~ Unknown
I'm very big on strategies such as trailing stops and limit orders, and fortunately, today's technology gives you even more tools to help you grow or protect your money.
~ Unknown
Once you master the basics, it is important to begin to reinforce the training with simple and realistic scenarios. The visualization phase of training needs to be confirmed with mission-oriented and realistic scenarios which require the individual to work with all the tools they carry on a mission. This training ensures that individual carries the proper gear and in the spot they can most efficiently use it.
~ Unknown
the dharma itself supplies the tools and support we need to find our own beauty, our own insight, our own ability to work with neurosis and pain.
~ Pema Chodron
In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.
~ David Hockney
Technology is technology and then art form and people's creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything - great! Technology for technology sake doesn't mean much to me anyway.
~ Tim Burton
So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.
~ Vera Brittain
if you have the tools but do not have the visual concept, the tools do not work
~ Unknown
The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.
~ William Howard Taft