Tools Quotes - Page 17

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

But we never tell the truth. We cannot properly 'tell' the truth, because our words are crude tools to express something, 'the truth', which may well exist, but which we cannot define.

We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.

Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.

Perl is like vise grips. You can do anything with it but it is the wrong tool for every job.

A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind.

There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz band, or a choir, and use every element that the musical tool box can offer. The world of music I love so much, and I can change the costume depending on the part, and I'm actually in the film.

Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.

A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.

If you go to YouTube and look up 'grief' you can find them and it's just an unbelievable tool for an actor to be able to access, without being unethical. It's like accessing the deepest, most painful parts of a person.

In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.

What I don't like about the way the media portrays religion is that they seem to weaponize it and use it as a tool to divide people.

I feel that religion can be used as a tool to guide your life and help you connect with other people.

Reason is a tool to help us better understand and defend our faith; as Anselm put it, ours is a faith that seeks understanding.

I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which refuses to be the slave or tool of the many or of the few, and guards its empire over itself as nobler than the empire of the world.

Tools have their own integrity.

Alienation is perhaps the most effective tool of control in America, and every reminder of our real connectedness weakens that tool.

I have a thing for tools.

Larousse is an invaluable tool for any cook. I've used this great resource all throughout my cooking career, and of course I look forward to the new edition. New information and knowledge are always welcome.

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure.

A computer is the most incredible tool we've ever seen. It can be a writing tool, a communications center, a supercalculator, a planner, a filer and an artistic instrument all in one, just by being given new instructions, or software, to work from. There are no other tools that have the power and versatility of a computer.

A party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away.