Tools Quotes - Page 34

• The slicing technique from Flatland still remains one of the most powerful tools for dealing with aggregates in higher dimensions.

  Thomas Banchoff

  Powerful, Technique, Ontology

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• I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

  Alan Lewis

  Thinking, Player, Trying

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• Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Fighting, Stopping, Crime

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• I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for.

  Diana Lopez

  Mom, Perseverance, Brother

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• It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.

  Martha Plimpton

  Past, Long, Political

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• I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of paint. The right music can sometimes do five pages of scripted dialogue.

  Todd Phillips

  Thinking, Directors, Pages

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That's the power behind a tool like Facebook Connect. It is making a Web without walls. Facebook allows you to go to other sites to comment, rate, etc., without having to set up a new profile for that site.

  Erik Qualman

  Wall, Etc, Profile

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• Enterprise search is becoming an indispensable tool to businesses of all sizes, helping people to find, use and share critical business information quickly.

  Jeff Raikes

  People, Use, Information

  "Microsoft buys in Norwegian know-how" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. January 08, 2008.

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• For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life.

  Eduardo Saverin

  Purpose, Charity, Levers

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• It was the same in World War I, when Woodrow Wilson, also a tool of the Jews, maneuvered it into the war.

  Julius Streicher

  War, World, Wilson

  Der Stürmer newspaper, 1944.

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• If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Workout, Health

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• Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.

  John B. Larson

  Government, Long, World

  "Globalization: A Rendezvous with Reality" by John B. Larson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2007.

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• I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.

  J.K. Simmons

  College, Degrees, Realizing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Credibility is a basic survival tool.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Survival, Credibility

  "Men Explain Things to Me — Facts Didn’t Get in the Way" by Rebecca Solnit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2012.

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• I used slam dunking as a tool for intimidation.

  Dominique Wilkins

  Intimidation, Dunking, Used

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• Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool of the Democrat Party. I'm proud to say that they are my enemy. They are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans.

  Don Young

  Party, Enemy, Groups

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• Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.

  Alice Weaver Flaherty

  Dog, Sleep, Writing

  Alice Weaver Flaherty (2015). “The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Magic, like technology, is a tool.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Technology, Magic

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• Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.

  Charles C. Mann

  Party, Two, Textbooks

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• WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Phones, Digital, Wordpress

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• Work/life benefits allow companies meaningful ways for responding to their employees' needs; they can be a powerful tool for transforming a workforce and driving a business' success.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Meaningful, Powerful, Business Success

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• You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

  Barry Mann

  Writing, Creating, Mad

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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

  James McBride

  Narrative, Firsts, Persons

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• I've always considered transcribing to be an invaluable tool in the development of one's musical ear and, over the years, I have spent countless glorious hours transcribing different kinds of music, either guitar-oriented or not.

  Steve Vai

  Guitar, Years, Musical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things to do before he kicks the bucket.' I wrote it for myself and shortened it to 'Justin's Bucket List.' It was there on the wall, not as a story idea but as a motivational tool for myself, which actually ended up working pretty well.

  Justin Zackham

  Wall, Ideas, One Day

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