Tools Quotes - Page 37

• The world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.

  Che Guevara

  Destiny, Men, World

  "Notes for the Study of the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution". "Verde Olivo" Magazine, www.marxists.org. October 8, 1960.

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• Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become defence mechanisms... against the unconscious.

  Rollo May

  Technique, Consciousness, Protection

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• I have always enjoyed do-it-yourself projects, .. Being in a position to actually help design and bring tools to market is an incredible opportunity. Being able to fund charities as a result is phenomenal.

  Tim Allen

  Opportunity, Design, Charity

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• The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change.

  Audre Lorde

  Games, House, May

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.112, Crossing Press

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• Democrats would use every tool in our arsenal to ensure that his [Charles Pickering] nomination is rejected again this year.

  Edward Kennedy

  Years, Rejection, Use

  "Bush re-nominates Pickering". www.cnn.com. January 8, 2003.

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• Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression

  Mohammad Khatami

  Revolution, Oppression, Deviation

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• There may be 300,000 apps for the iPhone and iPad, but the only app you really need is the browser. You don't need an app for the web ... You don't need to go through some kind of SDK ... You can use your web tools ... And you can publish your apps to the BlackBerry without writing any native code.

  Jim Balsillie

  Writing, Iphone, Ipads

  "RIM chiefs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie's best quotes" . by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best tool. With size you get space and atmosphere: atmosphere becomes volume. You stand in the shape, in the zone.

  Michael Heizer

  Commitment, Thinking, Space

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• It's a silly fool who thinks killing an animal with one tool is different than killing him with another.

  Bill Smith

  Silly, Animal, Thinking

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• The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.

  Ali Partovi

  Artist, Roles, Problem

  "Simple downloads, complex change" by Michael Coren, www.cnn.com. August 23, 2004.

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• Anthroposophie is not a religion but a tool for understanding of religions.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Understanding

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• If you want to make a substantial reduction in your carbon footprint, doing it on your own is virtually impossible, especially if you're driving a car. Here are tools available in the marketplace, enabling our customers to have this conversation.

  Tom Arnold

  Carbon Footprint, Enabling, Want

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• We must continue to be diligent in protecting Americans' civil liberties while preserving critical law enforcement tools we need to keep America safe.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Law, America, Liberty

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• If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of e-mail. The range of physical disabilities is very large, and we need many different tools to overcome the consequential barriers to Internet use. Let us commit ourselves to truly assuring that the Internet really is for everyone.

  Vinton Cerf

  Web Content, Overcoming, Different

  "Analysis: Web sites are locking out the disabled" by Judy Heim, www.cnn.com. August 7, 2000.

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• The acquisition of True Temper broadens our lawn and garden product line with outstanding, highly respected brands, ... The purchase also expands USI Hardware and Tool's customer base and provides additional capacity for future growth.

  David A. Clarke, Jr

  Garden, Growth, Lines

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• The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion?

  Richard Davidson

  Kindness, Compassion, Technology

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• Scheduling flexibility is the single greatest non-financial tool -- and the number-one dream-job factor -- at your disposal for winning battles in the talent wars. Use it.

  Bruce Tulgan

  Dream, Jobs, War

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• A parent's job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams. The best we can do is to help thm develop a personal set of tools for the task.

  Randy Pausch

  Family, Dream, Jobs

  Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.204, Hachette UK

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• While knowledge of tools and the love of motif may be in your backpack, and all mountains may be measured by their previous heroes, art must exist for you in a place beyond the judgment of others.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Nature, Hero

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• The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Brave, Victory

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• Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Best Job, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• We think that computers are the most remarkable tools that humankind has ever come up with, and we think that people are basically tool users. So if we can just get lots of computers to lots of people, it will make some qualitative difference to the world.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Differences, People

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• We make tools for people. Tools to create, tools to communicate. The age we're living in, these tools surprise you. ... That's why I love what we do. Because we make these tools, and we're constantly surprised with what people do with them.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Age, Surprise

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• The implements to him who can handle them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Handle

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• Satan is ever present, trying to destroy our glory and remove our crown. One of his most powerful tools is discouragement. Don't let your discouragement make Satan rejoice.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Powerful, Trying, Crowns

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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