Quotes with tool-making

Quotes 461 till 480 of 606.

  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Umberto Eco The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • George Santayana The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Zig Ziglar The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Douglas Adams The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Begum Aga Khan The most powerful tool to lift families out of extreme poverty is to grant micro-loans to women.
    International Business and Leadership Symposium address
    Begum Aga Khan
    French Egyptian artist and last wife of Sultan Aga Khan III (1906 - 2000)
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  • Bill Forsyth The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
    Bill Forsyth
    Scottish film director and writer (1946 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Carson Daly The No. 1 question I get from everybody is, 'How did you make it?' I'm like, Don't worry about making it. There is no making it. Just be happy.
    Carson Daly
    American television host, radio personality and producer (1973 - )
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  • Adam Baldwin The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.
    Adam Baldwin
    American actor (1962 - )
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  • Humphrey Bogart The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.
    Humphrey Bogart
    American screen and stage actor (1899 - 1957)
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  • Bill Burr The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Bob Riley The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Susan Sontag The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Enid Bagnold The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.
    Enid Bagnold
    British writer, playwright (1889 - 1981)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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