Tools Quotes

“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”
― Abraham Maslow

“Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“I encourage people to remember that "no" is a complete sentence.”
― Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

“Once you start recognizing the truth of your story, finish the story. It happened but you're still here, you're still capable, powerful, you're not your circumstance. It happened and you made it through. You're still fully equipped with every single tool you need to fulfill your purpose.”
― Steve Maraboli

“The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing.”
― Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials - The Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass

“Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Today, you have the opportunity to transcend from a disempowered mindset of existence to an empowered reality of purpose-driven living. Today is a new day that has been handed to you for shaping. You have the tools, now get out there and create a masterpiece.”
― Steve Maraboli, The Power Of One

“Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.

The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

“When I started writing I wanted the best tools. I skipped right over chisels on rocks, stylus on wet clay plates, quills and fountain pens, even mechanical pencils, and went straight to one of the first popular spin-offs of the aerospace program: the ballpoint pen. They were developed for comber navigators in the war because fountain pens would squirt all over your leather bomber jacket at altitude. (I have a cherished example of the next generation ballpoint, a pressurized Space Pen cleverly designed to work in weightlessness, given to me by Spider Robinson. At least, I cherish it when I can find it. It is also cleverly designed to seek out the lowest point of your desk, roll off, then find the lowest point on the floor, under a heavy piece of furniture. That's because it is cylindrical and lacks a pocket clip to keep it from rolling. In space, I presume it would float out of your pocket and find a forgotten corner of your spacecraft to hide in. NASA spent $3 million developing it. Good job, guys. I'm sure it's around here somewhere.)”
― John Varley, The John Varley Reader

“There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.”
― Adriana Trigiani, Viola in Reel Life

“Human tool-makers always make tools that will help us get what we want, and what we want hasn't changed for thousands of years because as far as we can tell the human template hasn't changed either. We still want the purse that will always be filled with gold, and the Fountain of Youth. We want the table that will cover itself with delicious food whenever we say the word, and that will be cleaned up afterwards by invisible servants. We want the Seven-League Boots so we can travel very quickly, and the Hat of Darkness so we can snoop on other people without being seen. We want the weapon that will never miss, and the castle that will keep us safe. We want excitement and adventure; we want routine and security. We want to have a large number of sexually attractive partners, and we also want those we love to love us in return, and be utterly faithful to us. We want cute, smart children who will treat us with the respect we deserve. We want to be surrounded by music, and by ravishing scents and attractive visual objects. We don't want to be too hot or too cold. We want to dance. We want to speak with the animals. We want to be envied. We want to be immortal. We want to be gods.
But in addition, we want wisdom and justice. We want hope. We want to be good.”
― Margaret Atwood, In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

“The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow God who are most like his children, who willingly and consciously walk in his will; but those who oppose him oppose him vainly and at their own expense, and, figuratively, seem to be more like his tools. They don't diminish his glory, but instead he still manages to use them in ways of unconsciously carrying out his will.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“These were the things that built the world. Not to know or care about them was a betrayal of fundamental principles, a betrayal of gender, of species. What could be more useless than a man who couldn't fix a dripping faucet—fundamentally useless, dead to history, to the messages in his genes? I wasn't sure I disagreed.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

“Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I alternate between writing on paper and on a computer, depending on my mood and the nature of the work.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“The world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better... with hands... with tools... with horse sense and science and engineering.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Door Into Summer

“See the hurdles on your path not as obstructions, but as tools meant to prep you up for the ultimate game of life.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“Wanting to be human too, I sought for evidence that I was; but if that's what it took, to make a weapon and kill with it, then evidently I was either extremely defective as a human being, or not human at all.

That's right, they said. What you are is a woman. Possibly not human at all, certainly defective.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

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“It will be very difficult for African Christians to understand that Christianity was part of colonial tools that stifles progress.”
― Chidi Ejeagba

“We invent tools to build alliances, but then slap sanctions on each other’s vocabularies.”
― Dipti Dhakul, Quote: +/-

“The Word of God is a significant tool that helps believers and non-believers to learn and understand the magnificence of God.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Infallible Word of God: 365 Inspirational Quotes

“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser”
― Socrates

“A knife in the hands of a chef feeds a nation. In the hands of a tyrant, it spills blood. It’s not the tool—it’s the intent behind it.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“It goes without saying that all of us carried our guns as well as our tools with us at all times.”
― Karl May, Old Surehand

“In the past, a computer was used to be a puppet for a user's hand. Now, we must be careful, no matter how tempting, not to become the puppet for an a.i. hand.”
― Aegelis

“When all else fails, try a different tool.

When all else fails, try a different methodology.

When all else fails, try a different objective.

When all else falls, ask for help.

When all else fails, find someone else to ask.

When all else fails, get a third opinion.

When all else fails, get another perspective.

When all else fails, get a research librarian to guide you to other tools, methodologies, perspectives, philosophies, objectives.

When all else fails, find a professional to do it.

When all else fails, find a child to figure it out.

When all else fails, weep, moan, and pound the walls.

When all else fails, unplug and plug back in.

When all else fails, shake up the system.

When all else fails, shake up your system--stretch, run,
go to the gym and punch a bag.

When all else fails, laugh at the quandary.

When all else fails, laugh at yourself.

When all else fails, light a scented candle
and watch the flame as you drink in the smell.

When all else fails, drink water.

When all else fails, immerse yourself in water--hot, cold, or hot then cold.

When all else fails, sing an anthem to the trees, the ground, the distant view.

When all else fails, dance a rhumba, dance a tango,
dance a forest witchie ritual.

When all else fails, take a nap.

When all else fails, go away completely, however long feels necessary.

When all else fails, try and figure out what's to be gained or learned if this was the way it absolutely needed to happen.

When all else fails, accept that this is the way it is.

When all else fails, love as is.

When all else fails, walk away.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Some battles are lost not because people lack the necessary tools for victory, but because they do not know how to use them effectively.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, A Manual for Victory