Tools Quotes

Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.

Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.

Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

In the history of extra-biblical study and research tools there has never before been a resource as useful as the Puritan Hard Drive.

....the ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods and tools that science is changing.

An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.

Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.

All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

Discipline is a necessary tool to help you get what you want in life. It forces you to stay on center and to move away from the things that are not necessary.

Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Electronic music is innately tied to the technology used to create it - as the tools evolve, so will the art.

Arbitration is private. It doesn't have the tools to dig into the corporate files. It's usually controlled by arbitrators who want repeat business from corporations not from the injured person.

We have played a critical role in meeting the new safety standards. The Canadian space industry contributed new tools that make the inspection of the space shuttle possible.

I learned a lot about the business side of the industry and some new production tools. It's getting more and more difficult, because of my exploding gig schedule.

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

I used slam dunking as a tool for intimidation.

Every artist is a walking business. Your marketing tools are your headshots and your reel. That's what people see that's what your out there pushing trying to get a rep and that isn't easy.

Your phone is a tool for communicating. You shouldn’t be communicating with the phone; you should be communicating with somebody on the other side of the phone.

A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools.

... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.

If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

Anti-depressan ts Controlling tools of your system Making life more tolerable Making life more tolerable

I probably use my chef's knives more than any other tool in the kitchen. I'm not married to a particular brand, because they all work, they all have sharp blades.

The sensory deprivation chamber has been the most important tool that I've ever used for developing my mind

Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could.

I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand & work with whatever tools you may have.

The photograph is a tool used to take you back to a certain point in one's life, to remember a face or a place you once stood. I feel there is always something quite melancholic about a photograph.

Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.

The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.

Circumstances and crises are God's tools to move you into your purpose and the maximizing of your potential.

We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.

Look inside your soul and find your tools. We all have tools and have to live with the help of them. I have two tools—my words and my images.

Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

I am merely a conduit, a kind of big hairy tool. I am just a plastic funnel connected to a Moog.

I'm a firm believer that education is the most efficient tool we have to make people aware and make our children aware, and to protect them from the scourge of the century, which is AIDS

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

It's about using the right tools, with the right triggers, within a proper marketing framework

Thank the Lord for using each person as a tool in your life to deepen your insight into His grace and conforming you to the image of His Son.

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.

Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.

The intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction.

Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.