Tools Quotes
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But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends.
Ted Dekker
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Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for watch; for a servant is, from the point of view of his craft, categorized as one of its tools. So any piece of property can be regarded as a tool enabling a man to live, and his property is an assemblage of such tools; a slave is a sort of living piece of property; and like any other servant is a tool in charge of other tools.
Aristotle
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I don't think that hedge funds are bad per se. I think they're just one more financial tool. And in that sense, they're useful.
Barack Obama
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Brain-imaging tools have started to show us what actually happens inside the brains of traumatized people. This has proven essential to understanding the damage inflicted by trauma and has guided us to formulate entirely new avenues of repair.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Silence & smile are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems & Silence is the way to avoid many problems.
Iris Johansen
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The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.
Plato
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Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.
M. Scott Peck
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The checklist is one of the most high powered productivity tool ever discovered.
Brian Tracy
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Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.
Lao Tzu
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To those of us who often procrastinate on the decision we feel intimidated by lack of education or any area of weakness. I relieve you with this statement: It is not how much you know that arms you with the tools of great decision making, but rather how much you ask. Ask questions.
T. D. Jakes
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I feel that religion can be used as a tool to guide your life and help you connect with other people.
Zach Anner
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I've been thinking about going back to university. I need more tools to continue to apply to the music. I've got to open myself up to more language.
Ana Tijoux
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Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the 'time to be right' to start doing something worthwhile. 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
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It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.
Tom Cruise
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Subtlety and indirection are important tools, but you can't scale the highest peaks with these tools alone.
Brian Morton
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I have convinced myself that if I am not using all of the tools I have in my disposal to do the maximum amount of good [...] then I am less of a good person than I could otherwise could be.
Hank Green
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I think future generations will see the invention of the Internet as having been as important as the invention of the printing press. It's the democratizing tool of all tools. As long as no one can control the flow of information, then freedom always has a chance.
Marianne Williamson
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We photographers have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.
Petra Collins
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
Erica Jong
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The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.
Terence McKenna
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An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.
Michelangelo
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The nazis slaughtered millions because they dehumanized their victims... but when it comes to dehumanizing victims the most useful and most widely used tool throughout history is, of course, religion.
David Alan Harvey