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Quotes About Tools

Your tools have elevated gossip, hearsay and conjecture to the level of valid, mainstream communication.
~ Dave Eggers
But the tools you guys create actually manufacture unnaturally extreme social needs.
~ Dave Eggers
Having an organizational tool that allows you to easily make lists such as these, ad hoc, is quite worthwhile.
~ David Allen
You increase your productivity and creativity exponentially when you think about the right things at the right time and have the tools to capture your value-added thinking.
~ David Allen
more. Lee had done this so many times that he could have closed his eyes and his fingers would carry on, manipulating his tools of felony with enviable precision. Lee had already
~ David Baldacci
I told Maria that I didn't have a magic button, but I did have some awesome tools, and I predicted that if we used them, she'd probably feel a whole lot better by the end of the session and might even feel joyful. But I told her I wasn't so sure it would be a good idea to use those tools.
~ David D. Burns
It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.
~ Christy Turlington
I begin to understand you." She nods. "The blacksmith makes his own tools.
~ Hilary Mantel
They say you had a trade as a blacksmith; is that correct?" Now she will say, shoe a horse? "It was my father's trade." "I begin to understand you." She nods. "The blacksmith makes his own tools.
~ Hilary Mantel
To sew the blue-burnt edges of a gunshot wound together should require only concentration, training, deftness, ease with systems awry and how to stabilize, but with good tools, sharp blades, bright lights, I'm guessing a material's qualities become more. Professionals are adept at covering it up, but I'm pretty sure pleasure insists.
~ Unknown
I'll have to get Malcolm to put some WD40 on
~ Unknown
I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks. Then I got pretentious and started writing with a dip pen on parchment (I wrote at least a novel-length poem that way). Moved on to a fountain pen. Then a typewriter, then an electric self-correct. Then someone gave me a word processor and I was amazed at being able to fit ten pages on one of those floppy discs.
~ Unknown
People, not methodologies or tools, make projects successful.
~ Unknown
We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart.
~ David R. Brower
Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked.
~ Buffy Sainte-Marie
Yes, I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools. My parents went through a back-to-the-land phase. Most of our vegetables and fruits came from our own garden.
~ Benjamin Percy
You can be very connected, computers are great, they can get you a ticket to Venezuela in five minutes; brilliant. But if you know your music and your history, you can make that work as a tool. If you don't, you're working as a slave to it.
~ Goldie
After Secretary Clinton announced in January 2010 that Internet freedom would be a major pillar of U.S. foreign policy, the State Department decided to take what Clinton calls a 'venture capital' approach to the funding of tools, research, public information projects, and training.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
I think companies need to put up tools that put privacy and security in the hands of their users and make it easy to understand those tools. In Google's case, two-step verification is a perfect example of this.
~ Jared Cohen
The grappling hook allows for versatile and dynamic movement through the map, while a variety of shinobi-esque tools allow for all sorts of tricks and finesse. These are very important elements of 'Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice''s gameplay and the protagonist's nature.
~ Hidetaka Miyazaki
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. —Stephen King
~ Jeff Anderson
A man takes care of his house, and a man takes care of his tools.
~ Jennifer Weiner
When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.
~ Mireille Enos
I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.
~ Nathan Fillion