Hammers Quotes

• If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

  Abraham Maslow

  Education, Wisdom, Humorous

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• Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Art, Reality, Mirrors

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• You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

  James Anthony Froude

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.4

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• In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Shining, Shapes

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.

  Alan Lewis

  Inspirational, Success, Firsts

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• To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

  Mark Twain

  Nails, Looks

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• For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.

  Edwin Markham

  Inspirational, Preparation, Anvils

  Edwin Markham (1920). “Gates of Paradise and Other Poems: The Fourth Volume of Verse”

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• Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Nails, Doe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.

  William Arthur Ward

  Anger, Effectiveness, Flying

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• In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Leadership, Work, Character

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1839). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.203

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• If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

  David Allen

  Education, Perspective, Innovation

  Twitter post from Apr 03, 2009

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• This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Baby, Inspiration

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

  Emily Dickinson

  Anvils

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• Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

  Terry Pratchett

  Blood, Hands, Genius

  "Thief of Time: A Novel of Discworld". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2001.

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• Don't force it... get a bigger hammer.

  Arthur Bloch

  Bigger, Force

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• You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.

  John Ruskin

  Cute, Girl, Flower

  John Ruskin (2006). “Sesame and Lillies: Three Lectures”, p.125, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it.

  John Heisman

  Opponents, Weakness, Weak Spots

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• There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Nails, Acceptable, Jokes

  "A Theory of Roughness". The Edge Interview, www.edge.org. December 20, 2004.

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• If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

  Bernard Baruch

  Political, Nails, Looks

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• When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.

  Robert De Niro

  Drama, Home, Hands

  "Robert De Niro: the ultimate viewing guide" by Angie Errigo, www.empireonline.com. February 23, 2016.

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• This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Dark, Acting, Nails

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• I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.

  Ice T

  Ice, Shows, Millions

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• Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence.

  Samuel Smiles

  Lying, Luck, Wish

  Samuel Smiles (1800). “Thrift”, p.176

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• Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Peace, Powerful, Pieces

  "Robert Frost & the New England Renaissance". Book by George Monteiro (p. 74), September 27, 1988.

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• I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Thinking, Ghouls, Vampire

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