Quotes with hammer

  • To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
  • There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.
  • If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
  • If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
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  • Carl Sandburg Lay me on an anvil, O God.
    Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar.
    Let me pry loose old walls.
    Let me lift and loosen old foundations.
    Prayers of Steel (1920)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Armand Hammer Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.
    Armand Hammer
     
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  • Milan Kundera A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Arthur Bloch Don't force it, get a bigger hammer.
    Arthur Bloch
    American writer, author of the Murphy's Law books (1948 - )
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  • Arthur Bloch Don't force it... get a bigger hammer.
    Arthur Bloch
    American writer, author of the Murphy's Law books (1948 - )
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  • J. A. Dever Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel.
    J. A. Dever
     
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  • Edwin Markham For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
    Edwin Markham
    American poet and editor (1852 - 1940)
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  • Abraham Kaplan Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
    Abraham Kaplan
    American philosopher
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  • Kingsley Amis I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
    As quoted in Fractal Finance by Greg Phelan in Yale Economic Review (Fall 2005)
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Alexander Maclaren If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.
    Alexander Maclaren
    British preacher (1826 - 1910)
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  • George Orwell In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Emily Dickinson It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Bonnie Hammer My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.
    Bonnie Hammer
     
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  • Boris Yeltsin The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Bono The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
    PENN Address (2004)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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