Everybody's got their tools or their instruments, and it's fun to see how people expose themselves to their profession or their profession becomes who they are.
If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.
There is no easy way to train an apprentice. My two tools are example and nagging.
I have a love/hate relationship with the internet. It's obviously the central tool of how I work, and how I keep in touch with all the writers and then producers that I'm collaborating with. Skype saves my life, you know.
A director can come from anywhere, but having a story background, if you have nothing else, is probably a good thing to have because it's really the one tool you need.
The sharpest tools in the box are not always the best tools for the job.
Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.
The New York Federal Reserve is a tool of the big banks.
More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.
To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear.
What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain."
When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.
BlackBerrys are a wonderful tool. I'm very tenacious about keeping up with my kids, as they are with me.
It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.
We all have unresolved shame, because it is used as a tool to control behavior.
As we have all said, we understand that electronic surveillance is a vital tool in the war on terror. We all want to know when Osama bin Laden is calling: when he is calling, who he is calling, and what he is saying.
Highlighting expensive repair costs to your vendor can also be a powerful negotiating tool.
There are certain parts of a classic nerd's brain that can destroy that person - obsessing about things to the detriment of everything else in your life. But those are the same tools that you can use to turn everything around.
While face-to-face is just as important as it ever was, now that we've got all kinds of new tools, let us tighten bonds in between those in-person moments.
I have the talent and the tools to win.
Anybody can claim to be a member of the ALF when rescuing animals, destroying "tools of torture" (such as research equipment) or financially depleting a corporation that abuses animals.
As an actor, I think every moment in your life is giving you a new set of tools. You’re constantly absorbing new information that you can put back onto the screen.
The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.
Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.
There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from.
