Tool Quotes - page 2

Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with. (Louis Schwartzberg)
Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered. View quote
Lee H. Hamilton
I just saw metal as another tool for me to use. View quote
Daisy Berkowitz
A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool. View quote
Michael Bergin
The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline. View quote
Norm Dicks
As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer. View quote
Nick Rahall
Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration. View quote
Susan George
War is the ultimate tool of politics. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD ... It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be. View quote
Albert Hofmann
The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head. View quote
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear. (Ayn Rand)
In reality, a person questioning the existence of the Satanic conspiracy is merely pointing out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. In that case, one can understand why the emperor's tailors get upset and suggest the person doing the pointing is a tool of the devil. Then the question comes down to one of whether the crowd will believe the evidence they have before them, or if they will buy into the tailors' fantasies. View quote
Michael A. Stackpole
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. View quote
Jane Wagner
What is missing from the policy analyst's tool kit -- and from the set of accepted, well-developed theories of human organization -- is an adequately specified theory of collective action whereby a group of principals can organize themselves voluntarily to retain the residuals of their own efforts. View quote
Elinor Ostrom
In the end nobody knows how it's done - how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can. View quote
David Hockney
Twitter is the people's tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources. View quote
Ai Weiwei
Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with. View quote
David Ricardo
Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless. View quote
Frank Gehry
I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of debates by seeking other dichotomies more appropriate than, or simply different from, the conventional divisions. All dichotomies are simplifications, but the rendition of a conflict along differing axes of several orthogonal dichotomies might provide an amplitude of proper intellectual space without forcing us to forgo our most comforting tool of thought. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
The behaviour of individuals is the tool with which the organisation achieves its targets. View quote
Herbert Simon
It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye. (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. View quote
Bernard Baruch
When these guitar mags bring up that stuff up and say such and such came up with this and that which is pushing the boundaries, I just say, "let's step back for a minute and admit something: nothing has happened for the last 100 years." And it's okay. It's not a bad thing ... We're all working with "tools" that have been in existence for the last 100 years and there hadn't been a new "tool" for a long long time. View quote
Joe Satriani
What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds. View quote
Steve Jobs
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. View quote
Joseph Addison