Top 1200 Powerful Tool Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The Internet is a tool, a technology, and we like to say that it has all of these properties, but really, it's just a place where our writing is.

My graphic design skills are superior to a lot of other things I can do; I use it as a part of my tool kit.

I always say to people, "If you share my dream, why don't we walk together?" And that's my only organizing tool.

I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.

Basketball to me is more than a passion or a paycheck - it is the tool I use to try to have an impact in the world.

I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.

I was able to not fold and go in a corner because I had my writing as therapy, but also as my tool for struggle.

My face and body have been a tool for my career, and I'm very conscious of that aspect and try and keep it the best I can.

Email is 20-30 times more effective in generating a purchase than any other tool.

What to do Before Your Book Launch is the new invaluable tool for writers. There is so much to know and now it’s all in one place.

The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking and investigating and understanding and challenging the world around us that there is, and it rests on the premise that any idea is there to be attacked. If it withstands the attack then it lives to fight another day and if it doesn't withstand the attack then down it goes. Religion doesn't seem to work like that.

Clearly, the left-wing groups want to use this carbon theme as a tool for wealth redistribution.

There's a great freedom of forms and intonations in Luigi Fontanella's poetry. He doesn't take a strong formal stand; his poetry entertains moments of nearly proselike colloquial narrative along with moments of powerful lyrical tension. There is a movement of extremes, from powerful tonality to near atonality, and I like this a great deal; it's a stance that very effectively catches the spirit that makes work in poetry possible nowadays.

It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.

What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

The sensory deprivation chamber has been the most important tool that I've ever used for developing my mind

There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does. The other kind holds people up to public contempt and ridicule -- that's what I do. Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

I do not believe that there is any person, method, or tool that can consistently and reliably predict specific human events, X- or otherwise.

History was invented as a tool, an engineered road down which human society could advance.

Sports provides that tool kit to be successful in life. Because it's not always going to be smooth sailing.

So as I thought about it, the most important "tool" you can have today in business is insatiable curiosity. The minute you lose it, you're dead.

Perseverance has always just been something that was in me. And it was a tool that came in very handy as a ballerina.

Most people make their choices predicated upon a feeling because analysis really isn't that good a tool.

Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.

Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure.

My mum was massively important to everything I've done, and now her memory is a motivational tool for me.

Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.

I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.

Sadly, a lot of our traditions are fading away and theatre can be a great tool to ensure that it doesn't happen.

The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice

Here in the U.S. we do have a problem with a president Donald Trump who uses language in two distinctly destructive ways. One is to lie, and to use words to mean their opposite. Like, when he calls the Russian investigation a "witch hunt." He can't call it a "witch hunt" because a witch hunt is something that a powerful person does against a powerless person. The most powerful man in the world cannot be the object of a witch hunt.

The strongest tool we, as Americans, have is our ability to rally together and to find solutions with unity of purpose.

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

As long as it is supported by Democratic politicians and by liberal Hollywood players, censorship is a useful tool to stifle dissent.

There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve--Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues, and all his virtues pertain to the relation of existence and consciousness: rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, pride.

I believe that the human motive to share is very powerful. The human motive to profit is also very powerful, and I think that the profit motive and the sharing motive are not exclusive.

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

The cross is a very powerful symbol and it symbolizes suffering, but it also is connected to a person who was loving and sharing and his message was about unconditional love. I tried to take a powerful image and use it to draw attention to a situation that needs attention. For me, we all need to be Jesus in our time. Jesus' message was to love your neighbor as yourself and these are people in need.

Punctuation is a fabulous tool for controlling your reader - you even get to control where they breathe. That's what I call power!

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

Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.

I am one of many people documenting damage and looting at ancient sites from space - it is such a crucial tool.

The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed.

Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.

The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.

[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.

Obamacare is a perfect tool to crush free enterprise and force all Americans into a socialist health care system.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow

Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.

If that god is described as being all-powerful and all-knowing and all-good, I don't see evidence for it anywhere in the world. So I remain unconvinced. If that god is all-powerful and all-good, I don't see that when a tsunami kills a quarter-million or an earthquake kills a quarter-million people. I'd like to think of good as something in the interest of your health or longevity.

Military missions cannot be a normal tool of politics, but instead must remain the great exception.

Any tool that helps instill God's Word in the lives of people is something I can enthusiastically endorse!

My overall plan for Instagram is to continue to create a tool that will inspire people to use their visual voice.

I think Broadway is waking up to the idea that rap is an incredible tool for telling a musical story.

I feel that religion can be used as a tool to guide your life and help you connect with other people.

Replacing human vision is more than just a tool: we need to understand how that affects the brain.

Because there is no better tool for writing than experience. It has very little to do with grammar and everything to do with knowing.

There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.