Tools Quotes

• A good tool improves the way you work. A great tool improves the way you think.

  Jeff Duntemann

  Thinking, Way, Favourite

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• You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.

  Steve Jobs

  Creativity, People, Innovation

  "Chairman Jobs? The Guessing Goes On", www.wired.com. July 31, 1997.

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• The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Investment, Trade, Best Investment

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• It is essential to have good tools, but it is also essential that the tools should be used in the right way.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Essentials, Way, Used

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work”, p.57, e-artnow

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• Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Jobs, Military

  Radio broadcast, 9 Feb. 1941

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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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• The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.

  Marty Neumeier

  Long, Design, Ends

  Marty Neumeier (2012). “Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age”, p.183, New Riders

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• Discover the tools to build your own vision.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Vision

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• Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development.

  Kevin Rudd

  Education, Justice, Fundamentals

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• We change our tools and then our tools change us.

  Jeff Bezos

  "Exclusive: Our own Len Edgerly interviews Amazon’s Jeff Bezos live in the KND Kindle Chronicles Interview". Interview with Len Edgerly, kindlenationdaily.com. July 29, 2012.

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• Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Animal, Men

  'Sartor Resartus' (1834) bk. 1, ch. 5

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• Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

  Steve Jobs

  Smart, Technology, People

  "Steve Jobs in 1994: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. January 17, 2011.

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• Money is nothing more than a tool. It can be a force for good, a force for evil, or simply idle.

  Jim Stovall

  Inspirational, Life, Evil

  Jim Stovall (2010). “Today's the Day!”, p.42, David C Cook

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• Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.

  Julia Cameron

  Morning, Creativity, Artist

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• The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

  Confucius

  Life, Business, Philosophical

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• Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.

  Stephen Covey

  Teamwork, Powerful, Technology

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• We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Shapes

  "New technology is fuelling the growth of gaming with social purpose" by David Hawksworth, Christian Johnsen, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2014.

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• Giving great service requires the right people and the right service tools.

  Ron Kaufman

  People, Giving, Great Service

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• Excuses are tools of the incompetent

  Mike Tomlin

  Excuse, Incompetent

  Twitter post from Aug 12, 2013

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• All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Earth, Limbs

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• If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.

  Sholem Asch

  Nails, Hammers, Problem

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• The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Knowing, Shelter

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• Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

  Napoleon Hill

  Recovery, Goal, May

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.107, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• The hand is the tool of tools.

  Aristotle

  Hands, Materials

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• Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.

  Dan Brown

  Impact, Hands, Users

  "The Lost Symbol". Book by Dan Brown, (Trish Dunne, Ch. 18), 2009.

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