Quotes About Tools

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

It's a real shame that vibrators can't kill spiders or mow the lawn.

And yet at Yan'an, Mao said that art and literature were crucial to revolution. Conversely, he warned, art and literature could also be tools of domination. Art

The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.

Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action

The pride of the digital age is not just in the possession of innovative tools but the ability to skillfully connect with humans behind them

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.

For people who have long-term disabilities, one of the best things we can do is to provide tools that allow them to resume "normal" activity.

Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done. No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them.

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

Goliath fell to a slingshot and a stone. and the Library is a lumbering giant, dying of its own arrogance; it has to change or fall. We have the tools. The will. The knowledge.

I disliked guns, but I learned to use them. I had come to understand guns, that they were tools and that they were no more evil, in their essence, than pliers and wrenches. At times, they were a necessity. In a world of evil, they were often also a blessing. Now and then, as I've said, I was able to

There are numerous tools with which to conceal the truth, although nothing has been quite as effective and reassuring as six or eight or ten feet of compacted earth.

Poetry is important to people in a crisis, as love and intelligence are important. These are survival tools.

Don't you go up on the roof in that!" I exclaimed, sitting up abruptly. "That's your good woolen shirt!" He halted by the door, glared briefly at me, then, with the rebuking expression of an early Christian martyr, laid down his tools, stripped off the shirt, dropped it on the floor, picked up the tools, and strode majestically out to deal with the leak, buttocks clenched with determined zeal. I

Every human being has "divinity" that is the same essence as the source of the cosmos. Our bodies act as temporary bodies for the journey of our souls. We came to Earth in order to go forward and complete the journey of our soul. Although our physical bodies have their limitations they also contain the necessary tools to propel our souls toward completion of the journey. The difficulties and trials that come with the human body are actually blessings, propelling our soul's expansive growth.

Rodeado por herramientas todopoderosas, el hombre queda reducido a ser instrumento de sus instrumentos.

A society dedicated to the protection of equally distributed, modern and effective tools for the exercise of productive liberties cannot come into existence unless the commodities and resources on which the exercise of those liberties is based are equally distributed to all.

Building purpose in a creative group is not about generating a brilliant moment of breakthrough but rather about building systems that can churn through lots of ideas in order to help unearth the right choices. This is why Catmull has learned to focus less on the ideas than on people—specifically, on providing teams with tools and support to locate paths, make hard choices, and navigate the arduous process together.

addition, the industrial-strength analytic tools necessary to interpret so much data can't always detect irony, sarcasm, and other subtle human tricks.

It's the one thing we do better than any other animal. We communicate, cooperate, and make tools to extend our reach. Every new tool changes us...The old fears the new, and the two threaten destroy each other. Our technology is what makes us strong. And it's what makes us dangerous.