Quotes with tools

  • Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. If they reach the point, they either crush it, or lean all round, more on the false than on the true.
  • My administration's compact with the Filipino people will demand no less than the attainment of lasting peace and equitable prosperity. We will employ all the tools at our disposal to achieve this.
  • And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
  • In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.
  • Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
  • When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.
  • Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
  • No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.
  • When my mother gets a prompt 'Do you want to download this?' she's going to say yes. It's disingenuous for Microsoft to give you all of these tools with which to hang yourself, and when you do, then say it's your fault.
  • Do not wait; the time will never be ''just right.'' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bill Gates I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
    Speech at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, February 24, 2004
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Ben Horowitz A good engineering interview will include some set of difficult problems to solve. It might even require that the candidate write a short program. In addition, it will test the candidate's knowledge of the tools she uses in great depth.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler An offer to fight Muhammad Ali came after Stevenson won his second Olympic gold in Montreal in 1976. Stevenson was at his peak. The world had never seen a heavyweight with the tools Stevenson brought into the ring.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bruce Nauman And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Napoleon Hill Do not wait; the time will never be ''just right.'' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Agnes Repplier Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Alva Myrdal First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Ben Parr Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Allen Klein Humor can be one of our best survival tools.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Ezra Pound 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.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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