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• You have to pick the right tool for the point you're trying to make and there is no one solution.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Trying, Photographer

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.128, New Riders

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• Tools have their own integrity.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Integrity, Usefulness, Housework

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

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Smart

  "Refining Your Style : Learning from Respected Communicators" by Dave Stone, (p. 143), 2004.

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• A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

  Robert Hughes

  Motivational, Perseverance, Determination

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• Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Fashion, War

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.58

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• Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.

  Clay Shirky

  Interesting

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• Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

  Peter Drucker

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.310, Routledge

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• A bad workman blames his tools.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Blame, Entrepreneurship, Chinese Proverb

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• Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

  Julian Huxley

  Concepts

  Julian Huxley (1944). “Man in the Modern World”

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• The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Two, Drawing, Design

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• Man is a tool-using animal.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Animal, Men

  'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 1, ch. 5

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• The difference between art and craft lies not in the tools you hold in your hands, but in the mental set that guides them. For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.

  David Bayles

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

  David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.99, Image Continuum Press

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• Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.

  Alan Chadwick

  Beautiful, Clean, Filthy

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• Great programmers learn how to program their tools, not just use them.

  Steve Yegge

  Use, Program, Programmers

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• Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.--The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Glue, Nails

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• The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

  Audre Lorde

  Peace, Power, House

  Title of essay (1979)

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• This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year there is a better camera to buy and new software to download. The user never has time to become comfortable with the tool. Consequently too much of the work is merely about the technology. The HDR and QTVR fads are good examples. Instead of focusing on the subject, users obsess over RAW conversion, Photoshop plug-ins, and on and on. For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.

  Alec Soth

  Photography, Technology, Typewriters

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• In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely varying the manufacture.

  Henri Bergson

  Philosophical, Intelligence, Faculty

  "Creative Evolution".

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• Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Way, Happens, Fronts

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• I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.

  Adam Savage

  Believe, Hammers, I Believe

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• Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.

  William Blake

  Hands, Born, Made

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.96, Routledge

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• Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

  Molly Haskell

  Fate, Understanding, Language

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• What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us. We live, true, we breathe, true; we walk, we go downstairs, we sit at a table in order to eat, we lie down on a bed on order to sleep. How? Where? When? Why? Describe your street. Describe another. Compare.

  Georges Perec

  Lying, Sleep, Glasses

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• Hands are our earliest tools. Cooking starts with the hands which are so sensitive that when they touch something they transmit messages to your brain about texture and temperature.

  James Beard

  Hands, Cooking, Brain

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• Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will have the use of both kinds.

  Gregory Bateson

  Wise, Men, Use

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