It's not about what equipment you have, it's what you do with it. — Aphex Twin
It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use. — Sam Abell
It's not about what the equipment does, it's about what you can do through that equipment. That's where the soul is. — Richie Hawtin
A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools. — Confucius
The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life. — Leon Kass
Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along. — Napoleon Hill
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings. — Robert Collier
Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability. — Arthur Nielsen
Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability. — Arthur C. Nielsen
The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade. — Benjamin Franklin
The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment. — Herbert Marcuse
The most reliable appliance has simplicity and quality, does what is demanded of it, is economical to use, easy to maintain, and just as easy to repair. ...It also sells best and looks good. — Raymond Loewy
Furniture and food are ways that people define their attitude toward life. They'll buy better stuff if it's offered to them. — Terence Conran
Short Equipment Quotes
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. — Edwin Powell Hubble
So she searches for light, only to realize it's in her, like an ember equipped to ignite. — Jessica Sorensen
The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind. — Rodney Yee
A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself. — Thomas Ehrlich
Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now. — Iyanla Vanzant
I come equipped with stereophonic funk producin´ disco inducin´ twin magnetic rock receptors. — Bootsy Collins
Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes? — Nellie L. McClung
Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth. — Herman Wouk
I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights. — Bob Iger
Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment. — Bob Feller
Sports Equipment Quotes
The biggest challenge was the cost to play the sport, and this is a challenge that my parents faced. They relied on the community and friends and family for support, and I learned to play hockey using second hand equipment. — P. K. Subban
Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn't know a game is going on? — Bill Maher
The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk. — P. J. O'Rourke
Is climbing, as a passion and as a sport, better off now than it was in the past? We can do harder climbs now in faster times - techniques are more refined and equipement more sophisticated - but are we really any better off? — Yvon Chouinard
I am very proud to align myself with Miken - a brand known as an innovator and leader in the development of high performance sports equipment. — Brett Hull
Archery is not a sport for everyone. The equipment costs a lot, and it is not easy for everyone to find a place to play. It is perhaps similar to golf, but of course there are more golf courses than archery fields. — Im Dong-Hyun
I don't like any sport where you're already exhausted when you're done putting on the equipment. — Rob Lowe
As Christians, we're asked to give. In my sport, if someone needs equipment or help with something, regardless of who they are as a competitor, I'm called to help them for a higher purpose. So it definitely affects everything I do. It's not easy. It's very hard to love everyone. — Elana Meyers
Alternative Lifestyles, the emotional fly-drive packages of our times, come equipped with a set of clothes, a choice of authors, a limited menu of sports and a discount coupon book of clichés. — Ellen Goodman
I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment. — Oscar Pistorius
Military Equipment Quotes
The police is using decaying equipment. The military, which has also been on the front lines in combating domestic terrorism, has been doing so with outdated and insufficient equipment. — Nayib Bukele
At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security. — Ruben Hinojosa
Artillerymen have a love for their guns which is perhaps stronger than the feeling of any soldier for his weapon or any part of his equipment. — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
Our military has been so badly depleted. Who would think the United States is raiding plane graveyards to pick up parts and equipment? That means they're being held together by a shoestring. Other countries have brand-new stuff they have bought from us. It's insane. — Donald Trump
I submit that those who run the American military at the top, and those whose boots are on the ground and who run the machinery and equipment, are sending a signal: You asked us to do something. Give us some time and we will solve the problems and we will do it. — Pete Domenici
Air control can be established by superiority in numbers, by better employment, by better equipment, or by a combination of these factors. — Carl Andrew Spaatz
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other. — Thomas Carlyle
The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler. — Confucius
The United States has been ambiguous on the current situation in Nepal. They have not actually come out very strongly in terms of pushing the king to take measures on the detentions or abuses by the army. China continues to provide military equipment. — Irene Khan
The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. — Michael Oxley
Device Quotes
A simile is like a pair of eyeglasses, one side sees this, one side sees that, the device brings them together. — George McWhirter
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you. — Matt Chandler
Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls and secure access devices, and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer and operate computer systems — Kevin Mitnick
I am proud to be a Christian. I believe not only as a Christian, but as a scientist as well. A wireless device can deliver a message through the wilderness. In prayer the human spirit can send invisible waves to eternity, waves that achieve their goal in front of God. — Guglielmo Marconi
Take off all the masks, manners, fancy clothes, all the devices you use, and be the most honest person you can be with yourself. Then, whatever love you get then is real. All the false approaches, like trying to be a player, only bring false results. — Jacque Fresco
A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process. — B. F. Skinner
Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women. — P. J. O'Rourke
There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible. — P. J. O'Rourke
Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely coupled, with automobiles, appliances, and other devices attached to the Internet. — Dorothy Denning
Hardware Quotes
The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry. — Henry Petroski
Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank. — Norman Ralph Augustine
Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware. — Ken Olsen
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store. — Kin Hubbard
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. — Craig Reucassel
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. — Craig Bruce
You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn't have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp. — Marguerite Moreau
With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy. — Adam Osborne
I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine. — Steven Levy
Don't follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail. When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you! — Ruby Bridges
Be patient. God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit. — Max Lucado
A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not a place to settle down in or as a comfortable snuggery in which to enjoy ourselves. I hope that if ever they, our soldiers, do settle down God will burn their barracks over their heads! — Catherine Booth
It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's really about the person that's pushing the buttons. No matter what type of equipment you have, you still have to have a certain talent to be able to make a good record. — Dr. Dre
I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit. — Chuck Yeager
Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better training and equipment so they can do their jobs more effectively and safely. — Carl Levin
War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale. — Chiang Kai-shek
Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting -- intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen. — Uta Hagen
One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements. — Dennis Hastert
Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper. — George Polya
We have to ensure the new generation is equipped with knowledge and science so they can represent our competitive advantage in front of the whole world. Our only choice is quality. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Engage, educate, equip, encourage, empower, energize, and elevate. Those are the methods for maximizing the potential of any individual, team, organization, or institution for ultimate success and significance. Those are the methods of a mentor leader. — Tony Dungy
Mining should not be too profitable because nothing should be too profitable, the world doesn't leave free money lying around. Therefore the price of Bitcoins can't rise too much above the cost of mining counting equipment depreciation among the costs of course. — Hal Finney
There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do. — Soichiro Honda
At some point we will shut down the border, things will have gotten that bad. When we do that, we will immediately be at war with the drug cartels because we cut off their income. We are going to have to fight inside the United States as well as on our border and that's going to demand the United States Army because our Border Patrol is not nearly as well-equipped. Border Patrol is outgunned, outperformed in every sense, every category of military power by the cartels. — Douglas Macgregor
No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it — Jean De La Bruyere
Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment. — Alan Parsons
The true wealth of a nation lies in its youth...one that is equipped with education and knowledge and which provides the means for building the nation and strengthening its principles to achieve progress on all levels. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
People who start at the top never understand what they missed at the bottom. The guy who started by sorting the mail, or cleaning the restaurant late at night, or fixing the equipment at the gym, that’s the guy who knows how things get done. After he’s eventually worked his way up through the ranks, he knows how everything works, why it works, what to do when it stops working. That’s the guy who will have longevity and value and impact, because he knows what it took to get to the top. You can’t claim you ran a marathon if you started at the seventeenth mile. — Tim Grover
No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will. — Richard Simmons
Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence. — Louis Althusser
In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear. — Julia Child
Just as God gave Moses exactly what he needed to accomplish great things, he will equip us in the same way. If he calls us to slay giants, he will make us into giant slayers. — Christine Caine
Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked. — Abdus Salam
They capitalists will furnish credits which will serve us for the support of the Communist Party in their countries and, by supplying us materials and technical equipment which we lack, will restore our military industry necessary for our future attacks against our suppliers. To put it in other words, they will work on the preparation of their own suicide. — Vladimir Lenin
White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it. — Rob Zombie
The trouble with a lot of artists today is that they have too much technique and equipment. They don't know what to do with it all. If you cut down on it, you can work more strongly within narrower limits. — Alexander Calder
It isn’t hard to practise finishing. You can do it on your own: just take a couple of touches and shoot at goal. You can do it with whatever equipment you have. — Harry Kane
Forget all the equipment, forget the music, at the end of the day it's just literally frequencies and their effects on your brain. That's what's everyone's essentially after. — Aphex Twin
There is probably nothing finer than to climb free and unencumbered by equipment, reveling in the gymnastic upward movement, like Preuss or a Dulfer before you, relying only upon yourself, keeping a sharp eye on things, feeling the rock beneath your feet and fingertips. — Hermann Buhl
If God has called you to something, He will equip you to be what He has called you to be. If He has called you to be a responsible, faithful, diligent leader, as a man, He will equip you to do that. — LeCrae
Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job PARKING CARS! — Sylvester Stallone
Men hunt I think maybe because they have something wrong with their own equipment and they need something else to shoot. — Pamela Anderson
Maximum Sustained Power workouts are much less taxing on the cardio endurance component and instead focus on going for max power or going home. Literally, you end your mini-sets when you can’t lift the heavy bar again due to accumulated fatigue. Or, in the case of vertical jumps or calibrated exercise equipment, you stop the set when you fall materially short of your baseline absolute power performance standard that you started the workout with. — Mark Sisson
The most used piece of kit in my kitchen is my saucepan. I use it every morning to cook my porridge in. The least used piece of equipment? I'd say a food mixer. I've never used it, I don't really know what they're for. — David Walliams
Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart. — Fred Allen
One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world's problems will produce anything of lasting value. Such a generation, even when equipped with the most modern technology, will be essentially primitive it will stand in awe of nature, and submit to the tutelage of medicine men. — Eric Hoffer
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore. — Edward Witten
Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict against Islamofascism. They went into that battle, being called up for their national security service, short of equipment. — Christopher Bond
I'm going to fight my way out, I'm going to take all my equipment and all my wounded and as many dead as I can. If we can't get out this way, this Division will never fight as a unit again. — Oliver P. Smith
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