Top 1200 Powerful Tool Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver. General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

The Web is functionally fantastic, but it's a tool. A terrific place to present information but not, at this stage, a tenably emotional location.

The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both.

Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.

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

We must use every tool at our disposal to lift the living standards of low-wage employees.

Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.

I am not knocking the Net as a research tool. It is the best, and obviously, life has never been better for students.

I use my sport and my talent as a tool to spread God's word. Whatever I get out of it, all glory goes to Him.

I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.

Wasn't it Bertrand Russell who used the phrase 'The superior virtue of the oppressed'? There is always this temptation amongst people that see themselves as progressive, and on the side of the weak. They demonize the powerful, but over-romanticize the weak. I think we should recognize that. If you take seriously the idea that people are always going to use truth claims as a means of powering their own agenda, that is going to happen whether you're weak or powerful.

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.

Social media is not only the most important tool for inciting terrorists, it can also be an effective weapon against them.

The practice of yoga has been an amazing tool to actually unearth where my inspiration lives inside my body and mind and heart.

Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.

What I don't like about the way the media portrays religion is that they seem to weaponize it and use it as a tool to divide people.

What's the deal with Johnny Damon? He can't hit. He can't catch. He can't throw. He's sort of the five-tool guy... without any of the tools!

Not only is yoga excellent for flexibility, but it is also a great tool for longevity and injury prevention, as it allows for internal body awareness.

Truth was a tool. It should never simply be said. No, it had to be bent, twisted, colored, until it became a weapon.

Nationalism is a tool increasingly used by leaders to bolster their authority, especially amid difficult economic and political conditions.

I truly believe that art can be an agent of change and has been, throughout history, a tool to enlighten the individual and society.

One of the main challenges, for me, has been to keep simplicity in its place. It’s only a tool. It’s not the destination, it’s the vehicle that gets us there

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.

You have to be very prudent with what you are doing and what sort of tools you are utilizing. Drones have become a wonderful new tool in filmmaking.

The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It's not an underground tool for me. It's my whole life.

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

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

You have an awareness of your body and how to use it and I think that if you can embody a character physically it's another really useful tool.

PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors.

Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center of the coverage.

There's no bigger gaming franchise on the console than 'Call of Duty', and we can't wait to see what the community can create with this new tool.

For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job.

I am not obsessed with social media fame, but I do think that it's a great tool by which I can stay in touch with my fans.

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

I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn't have a reciprocal experience. But I was very careful to bury them deeply, deeply in the plaster and paint over them. I didn't want anybody to directly access them, and that's gradually changed for me.

Anyway, this huge Lena Dunham interview in Playboy. It felt like a shifting, of some kind. This new female archetype - this new, powerful, honest, non-pandering kind of female is becoming more powerful than whatever else has been rocking it for the past 10 years. I heard that Hugh Hefner's daughter is taking over. Which, if a woman is running Playboy, something is right.

Although eBay is a fantastic tool for collectors who want to buy or sell, you really have to have knowledge of items before you embark.

If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. That's why the placebo effect is so powerful for every type of healing. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the "nocebo" effect.

Political activists in Hong Kong and Taiwan use Facebook as their primary tool to mobilize support for their causes and activities.

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.

Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t see.

Even labeling the tea party and left and right its dangerous, because it's - it's another ego separation tool.

Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.

Taxes are an important tool for us together with infrastructure investments, research, and development to create more jobs.

The empowerment of girls and women is an essential tool to preventing the HIV/AIDS emergency from exploding any further

Money is a very important tool to make a big difference in people's life. It is positive or negative depending on the values.

I'll just say it: I'm not the sharpest tool in the box. Being forced to go back to school is still a fear of mine.

The Internet has become a tool to pick on people and ruin someone's life. I don't think parents realize what's going on.

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.

We want our users to use the Found Money feature so they can get extra money while they shop, which will be invested in their future. And that's a powerful idea for our customers, and it is a powerful idea for brands because from their perspective they are increasing loyalty for their brands by investing in their customers' future. And of course it helps us grow our business.

The Swiss ball is such a great tool because it forces you to recruit more muscles in order to stabilize yourself.

A lot of people, even if they know what VR is, see it as this tool to go in your basement and play Halo.

Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.

The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.

Positive thinking is a valuable tool that can help you overcome obstacles, deal with pain, and reach new goals.

Design is a tool that allows us to reach out and inspire, to touch others and help make lives magic and wonderful

If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.

Women are both talented and innovative thinkers and tend to use computer science as a tool to solve larger problems.