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Tools Quotes

I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.

– Rand Paul

The problem is that too many adults think their kids’ lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they’re young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.

– Sherman Alexie

The tools used by economists to analyze business firms are too abstract and speculative to offer any guidance to entrepreneurs and managers in their constant struggle to bring novel products to consumers at low cost.

– Ronald Coase

Flattery was one of Kissinger’s principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.

– Robert Dallek

I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who’s a producer, ‘You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.’

– Quincy Jones

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.

– Ricardo Semler

Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.

– Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

– Robert Hughes

In film, you’re always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.

– Rodrigo Santoro

We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long as they have the tools in which to succeed.

– Ron Kind

If millions of Americans choose to weigh in on the outcome of ‘American Idol’ through text messages and the Web, then why not harness similar technological tools to encourage discourse on the political landscape?

– Ruzwana Bashir

I’m kind of in between organized and messy, so if I have the right things to keep me organized, it’s easier for me to stay that way. If I don’t have the right tools, I’m a train wreck.

– Odette Annable

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

– Phil Donahue

I’m an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers… They use my tools.

– Robert Moog

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

– Ronnie Wood

Whether or not the U.S. government funds circumvention tools, or who exactly it funds and with what amount, it is clear that Internet users in China and elsewhere are seeking out and creating their own ad hoc solutions to access the uncensored global Internet.

– Rebecca MacKinnon

For everybody in their busy lives, you need to invest in sharpening your tools, and you need to invest in longevity.

– Ryan Holmes

The best thing we can do is give students the tools for constructing their own identities – powerful new tools like African fractals – and then just get out of the way.

– Ron Eglash

You have to remember that not every creature that was evolving left behind its skull or its tools for our convenience tens of thousands of years later. Most bones or most tools rot or get buried and are never found again.

– Steven Pinker

I think in reality, today, if you use the same tools as everyone else, you kind of build the same products.

– Saul Griffith

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

– Thomas Jefferson

One of the most effective tools in Brazil’s efforts to eradicate slavery is a register compiled by the government that lists individuals and businesses found using slave labor. Those on the ‘dirty list,’ as the register is known, are fined and remain on it for a minimum of two years during which they cannot access public funds.

– Wagner Moura

I’m always working on new songs. With the technology these days, any idiot can record on Pro Tools on your laptop. All you have to do is plug a microphone into the input jack and anybody can have their own recording studio. So I’m always down in my basement, singing along to riffs or whoever I’m collaborating with.

– Sebastian Bach

One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.

– Steven Pinker

We use tools such as email, not just as a way to keep in daily touch with family members who live in other cities, but also as a way to keep in touch with staff and members of the public.

– Tipper Gore

The same tools we need to use to keep this country safe by bringing terrorists to justice, because I guarantee you, if they have the opportunity and the means, they will take American lives.

– Todd Tiahrt

Less than 1 percent of ancient Egypt has been discovered and excavated. With population pressures, urbanization, and modernization encroaching, we’re in a race against time. Why not use the most advanced tools we have to map, quantify, and protect our past?

– Sarah Parcak

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it’s office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.

– Tom Peters

My approach to ‘Eastenders’ is the same as my approach to film and the same approach to theatre. Whatever I do, I use the same skills and tools.

– Steve McFadden

Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.

– Tariq Ramadan

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