Tools Quotes - Page 28

• I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Use, Way

  "David Sedaris: 'If you tell a funny story at the dinner table in front of 10 people, nine will laugh, and one will say: that's not true. I've always hated that person'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2009.

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• I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.

  Jerry Brown

  Technology, Thinking, Degenerates

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• No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great man is only the poor necessary tool, only, so to speak, the paltry awl to bore with.

  Knut Hamsun

  Men, And Love, Genius

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• Tapping is a powerful tool that can truly heal, allowing forgiveness, love, and acceptance into your life, particularly when used along with affirmations.

  Louise Hay

  Powerful, Acceptance, Affirmation

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• Photography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality. Thus it is the responsibility of photographers to not contribute with anaesthetic images but rather to provide images that shake consciousness.

  Joan Fontcuberta

  Photography, Responsibility, Reality

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• Just as a man working with his tools should know its limitations, a man working with his cognitive apparatus must know its limitations.

  Charlie Munger

  Men, Should, Knows

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• Steam is about creating tools for content creators and customers.

  Gabe Newell

  Creating, Steam, Creator

  "Hatred game back on Steam Greenlight" by Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2014.

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• Even the most deft pen is a clumsy tool.

  Alex Ebert

  Pens, Clumsy

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• The details of our struggle to survive and prosper, in what has been a difficult and sometimes bitter relationship with a system of laws and practices that deny us access to the tools necessary for productive and industrious life, are available to any serious student of history or sociology.

  August Wilson

  Struggle, Practice, Law

  August Wilson, Larry Fishburne, Samuel G Freedman, Marion Isaac McClinton, Tony Kushner (2007). “August Wilson Century Cycle”

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• Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative activity. No ruler could ever command men to fashion the first tools, first use fire, invent the telescope and the steam engine, or compose the Iliad. Cultural values do not arise by direction of higher authorities. They cannot be compelled by dictates nor called into life by the resolution of legislative assemblies.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Fashion, Men, Fire

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• The crime which is done now is that war has made a tool and slave of science, and man's knowledge, painfully and laboriously compiled, is made the instrument of man's destruction.

  Leonard Wibberley

  War, Men, Done

  Leonard Wibberley (1920). “The Mouse That Roared”, Turtleback

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• No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.

  Albert Claude

  Men, Doubt, Watches

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• Treat your career as a business. Invest your earnings into good tools that can enhance your business. Film businesses are the same as non-film businesses. Ploughing part of your earnings back into your filmmaking business would grow career exponentially.

  Elliot Grove

  Careers, Ploughing, Earning

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• People always think of technology as something having silicon in it. But a pencil is technology. Any language is technology. Technology is a tool we use to accomplish a particular task and when one talks about appropriate technology in developing countries, appropriate may mean anything from fire to solar electricity.

  Mae Jemison

  Country, Mean, Technology

  "A Space to Call Her Own". Interview with Paula Lipp, www.graduatingengineer.com. September 29, 1999.

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• Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of literacy. The most powerful tool that we have to strengthen literacy is often the most underused and overlooked, and that is a child's own stories.

  Pam Allyn

  Children, Powerful, Reading

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• We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture... We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it into gravel, we can shape it into glory.

  Richard Bach

  Block, Sculpture, Shapes

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• Perception is a powerful tool.

  Shannon Lee

  Powerful, Perception

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• The things you’re most embarrassed about, most ashamed of, and most reluctant to share are the very tools God can use most powerfully to heal others

  Rick Warren

  Use, Most Powerful, Share

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.251, Zondervan

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• The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure.

  Thomas Eakins

  Powerful, Construction, Stumps

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• The people are only tools, a means used by God. But they are not the sourse of help, aid, or salvation of any kind. Only God is. The people cannot even create the wing of a fly (Quran, 22:73).

  Yasmin

  Mean, Wings, People

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• I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.

  J. Cole

  Heart, Long, Hip Hop

  "J. Cole On Competition And Writing Honest Songs". "Microphone Check" with Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Frannie Kelley, www.npr.org. June 23, 2013.

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• In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by man with specific tools, when it invades man’s time, when it becomes sound, noise is the source of the purpose and power, of the dream – Music.

  Jacques Attali

  Dream, Men, Sound

  Jacques Attali (1985). “Noise: The Political Economy of Music”, p.6, Manchester University Press

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• So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

  Hans Blix

  Interviews, Certain, Circumstances

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• Future is about creating value. If we have tools to empower each other, more possibility is reality.

  Jessica Jackley

  Reality, Creating Value, Empowering

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• Nowadays you can record on your laptop with Pro Tools, which I do quite often.

  Ronnie Wood

  Records, Laptops

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