Tools Quotes - Page 10

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

Slander is the tool of cowards.

I can give you the tools to reach the dreams you have inside.

If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.

Choice is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.

I try to photograph things that are near to me because I work best among things I know. I'm not concerned with startling anyone or discovering new forms; formal qualities are only tools to help state my message.

The copywriter uses words as tools to persuade and motivate an audience. You persuade your readers that you have something valuable to offer; you motivate them to acquire it for themselves. This is the essence of effective copywriting.

If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information.

Your imagination is an extremely powerful tool.

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines were creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

Everything you use in a modern life style has to be made using a tool of some sort.

If someone were to hire me for a film they'd be getting a certain kind of package, that's for sure, a certain set of tools. But I would listen to the director.

I grew up with a pencil. A pencil was my computer at the time and so drawing, drawing, drawing and the tools of drawing where the usual ones and eventually then you graduated from the tools when the work increases and you start to draw by freehand as precise as possible and as accurate as possible, and I was pretty good at that.

The full-range-of-m otion exercise known as the squat is the single most useful exercise in the weight room, and our most valuable tool for building strength, power, and size.

Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet, then what tools do we have to reach people, to appeal to them and all of their senses?

I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.

Mozart didn't have Pro Tools, but he did a pretty good job.

Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development.

If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe--has to change.

The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them.

We tend to think of Steam as tools for content developers and tools for producers. We're just always thinking: how do we want to make content developers' lives better and users' lives a lot better? With Big Picture Mode, we're trying to answer the question: 'How can we maximize a content developers' investment?'

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.