Tools Quotes

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible world discovered to the understanding.

Language is the tool of the tools

To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.

I am a believer, I am believer that we shape and create the life that we choose, and I believe that the tool that we have to do that, is our mind.

LSD is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.

Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.

Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

A scientific theory is a tool and not a creed.

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.

Perception is a tool that's pointed on both ends.

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.

I say from time to time that the vote is precious. It's almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.

I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.

As much as 95% of quality related problems in the factory can be solved with seven fundamental quantitative tools.

Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society. All schools should be teaching typography; we should be fundamentally aware of how typographic language is forming out assholes.

Excuses are tools of the incompetent

Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.

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.

Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.

This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It`s not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways.

The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.

The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

Everybody should want to make sure that we have the cyber tools necessary to investigate cyber crimes, and to be prepared to defend against them and to bring people to justice who commit it.

Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.

The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it (which would satisfy his scientific obligation), he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.

Sanitation should not be seen as a political tool, but should only be connected to patriotism (rashtrabhakti) and commitment to public health.

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.

The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.

I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys.

Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.

For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time that we alter the living condition which are the result of those structures. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house.

I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable.

Design is a tool to help the tribe.

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

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.

Steam is about creating tools for content creators and customers.

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.

I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.

Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation.

Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand--an extended application of its powers.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

It was the same in World War I, when Woodrow Wilson, also a tool of the Jews, maneuvered it into the war.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.