Tools Quotes - Page 16

You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.

I am beginning to see a large-scale introduction of various management tools, philosophies and practices in the service sectors and have a high hope that it will become a global trend.

Control charts are one of the statistical tools for solving quality related problems.

Under the lean system, any tools which are required for solving problems are used.

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well.

The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be too refined.

Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.

You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.

I certainly like the actor to have as much lee-way as possible. In the same way that director Bong was generous enough to let me create, you have to do that for actors, as well, and let them use the tools they have, and part of that is their own brains and their own words.

In general, good tools for staying in sync just haven't been built and made available to the world.

Analytical tools have their limitations in a turbulent world. These tools work best when parameters are known, assumptions are minimal, and the future is not fuzzy.

I do the best I can with any instrument I get attracted to. But they're just tools in order for you to express yourself and that's really the upshot of it.

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

Introspection can easily become the tool of Satan, who is called the accuser. One of his chief weapons is discouragement. He knows that if he can make us discouraged and dispirited we will not fight the battle for holiness.

Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.

It is innate in our species to be cyborgian in nature. We have been in the self amplifying feedback loop with our tools since stone tools, and since the written word, and what we are seeing now is just a deepening of that. But it has always been the case. We have always done this.

The machine is a tool. But it is not a neutral tool. We are deeply influenced by the machine while using it.

The way we use technology is completely wasteful. We duplicate many vacuum cleaners, tools; In the future we will make the best of equipment and make it available to everyone.

People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them.

Advertising justifies its existence when used in the public interest-it is much too powerful a tool to use solely for commercial purposes.

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research.

Any tool should be useful in the expected way, but a truly great tool lends itself to uses you never expected.

It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few words to use as tools. There isn't time for bad writing in a short story.