Tool Quotes

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own personal example.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own example.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is important.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Race is a lazy mind's tool for identifying culture.

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

Latin A sword never kills anybody it is a tool in the killer's hand.

Language is a dangerous tool, that when misused, can result in nonsense.

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words.

I you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.

Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.

So-called "respect" is often a tool within the language of moralistic judgement of a domination culture.

Once you start recognizing the truth of your story, finish the story.

It happened but your still here, you’re still capable, powerful, you’re not your circumstance. It happened and you made it through. You’re still fully equipped with every single tool you need to fulfill your purpose.

O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small.

Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

Anything new is always considered the devil's tool.

I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

Part of the reason there's an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you're in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let's say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others. . . .If, however, we do not use our anger to define ourselves clearly in every important relationship we are in--and manage our feelings as they arise--no one else will assume this responsibility for us.

The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The superstructure of society ordains the type of art in which the artist has to be educated. Rebels are subdued by its machinery and only rare talents may create their own work. The rest become shameless hacks or are crushed.

You do not need the bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate.

One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself to write about it and putting it down in words, you can't avoid having to come to grips with it. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very intensely to write about it. So I use writing as a learning tool.

He that cannot decidedly say, No, when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.

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.

Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself.

Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty--how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.

Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives.

They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious.

It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

INNOVATION is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation.

Mind is the Master--power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills--He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer.

This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.