Tool Quotes

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. (Washington Irving)
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. View quote
Steve Jobs
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. View quote
George Carlin
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. View quote
Washington Irving
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit. View quote
Howard Gardner
Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right. View quote
Ani DiFranco
It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. View quote
Abraham Maslow
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool. (John Steinbeck)
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. View quote
Stephen King
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings. View quote
Robert Collier
Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. View quote
Frank Herbert
Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building. View quote
Miguel Syjuco
Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference. View quote
Herbie Hancock
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. View quote
Ayn Rand
Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars. View quote
Ayn Rand
The income tax is a much less effective tool for reducing inequalities than has often been thought. View quote
James Mirrlees
CHICAGO Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders. View quote
Carl Sandburg
I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy. (Robert Kagan)
Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies. View quote
Melinda Gates
Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law. View quote
Gary North
Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development. View quote
Aleksander Kwasniewski
Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words. View quote
Deborah Bull