Tools Quotes - Page 13

Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works.

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

I use geometric and mathematical ideas to organize material, but those are tools. The purpose of the work is not to expose that at all, but to arrive at some kind of expressiveness.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Our strengths are our tools, our personal reality. Our weaknesses are only what we are not.

When our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole.

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

We change our tools and then our tools change us.

Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.

I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of tremendous value.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

Vulnerability is a wonderful tool for awakening and for learning and for growing and for connecting.

First you train the followers to accomplish the mission. Second, you resource them: Make sure that they have the tools to do the job. Third, you reward them: You give them medals or bonuses.

The point is that religion puts a value on irrationality, which makes it the perfect tool for promoting irrational beliefs like misogyny. Other ideologies can be challenged with evidence and reason, but religion is allowed a pass by most people. And that's why it's especially dangerous.

Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.

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

Money can't be cared about - it's got to be a tool that you use, because if you don't use it, it will use you.

Man is the only animal to borrow tools.

The first thing that makes you a tough fighter is in your head and in your heart, then your tools. It has nothing to do with someone teaching you how to be tough.

I don't view myself as a victim of gun violence. I view myself as a victim of a maniac who happened to use a gun as a tool, and I view myself as a victim of the legislators at the time who left me defenseless.

One of Satan's sharpest tools is alcohol, for it blinds and deafens, numbs and manacles, impoverishes and maims, and kills unfortunate victims.

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

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