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• I can give you the tools to reach the dreams you have inside.

  T. D. Jakes

  Dream, Giving, I Can

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• Failure is awesome. Failure means you tried something, you tested it, and you learned some things. Failure gives you the tools to move forward.

  Leah Busque

  Moving, Mean, Giving

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• It looks like the age of the mass is behind us and the age of the individual is upon us. The chasm that now exists between new people and old organizations is destroying economic value and inhibiting the emergence of a new chapter of capitalism aligned with the needs of this new society. The new purpose of commerce is to provide the tools, platforms, and relationships, digital or human, that enable individuals to live the lives they choose.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Organization, Economic Value, People

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• It is not just that science and technology are possible means of great human satisfaction, as well as a matrix of complex dominations. Cyborg imagery can suggest a way out of the maze of dualisms in which we have explained our bodies and our tools to ourselves.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Mean, Technology, Mazes

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• 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.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Important, United States, World

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• No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.

  James Russell Lowell

  Work, Blessed, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1876). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.52

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• Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Noble, Use

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• If you dont like the way your life is going, redesign it. Redeem the years you lost. Restore your vision, revive your passion for living, and reclaim what was dormant inside of you. I cannot give you the dream but I can give you the tools to reach the dreams you have inside.

  T. D. Jakes

  Dream, Passion, Years

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• A paradigm is a powerful theoretical and methodological framework which defines the working lives of thousands of intelligent and disciplined minds. And paradigms do not attract the loyalty of such minds unless they 'work'. One of the first things a graduate student learns is that if there is a discrepancy between the paradigm and what he or she has discovered, then the automatic assumption is that the paradigm is right and the student wrong. Just as a good workman never blames his tools, so the diligent student never blames his paradigm

  John Naughton

  Loyalty, Powerful, Intelligent

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• As worship leaders we might use music as a tool, but music is only ever just that - a tool with which to encourage lives to be renewed and awakened to God.

  Reuben Morgan

  Music, Encouraging, God

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• It is impossible not to notice Ruby on Rails. It has had a huge effect both in
  and outside the Ruby community... Rails has become a standard to which even
  well-established tools are comparing themselves to.

  Martin Fowler

  Community, Rubies, Impossible

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• The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.

  John Carmack

  Xbox, Games, Development

  "Microsoft Unveils Games For Its New Xbox 360" by Seth Schiesel, query.nytimes.com. October 6, 2005.

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• The situation is so much better for programmers today - a cheap used PC, a linux CD, and an internet account, and you have all the tools necessary to work your way to any level of programming skill you want to shoot for.

  John Carmack

  Cds, Skills, Levels

  "Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture". Book by David Kushner, May 6, 2003.

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• Only fools worship their tools

  Dee Hock

  Fool, Worship

  Dee Hock (2005). “One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization”, p.54, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what’s up the track and meeting it when it comes. That’s gumption. If you’re going to repair a motorcycle, an adequate supply of gumption is the first and most important tool. If you haven’t got that you might as well gather up all the other tools and put them away, because they won’t do you any good.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Track, Motorcycle, Important

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• The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy.

  Tom Platz

  Bodybuilding, Psychological, Atrophy

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• 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.

  Elinor Ostrom

  Organization, Effort, Missing

  Elinor Ostrom (2015). “Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action”, p.22, Cambridge University Press

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• Meet customers where they are; question how to make the tools customers use more valuable.

  Jack Dorsey

  Use, Valuable, Customers

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• A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

  Anne Sweeney

  Jobs, Focus, Leader

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• Testimony is a result of choice, not circumstance. In all seasons of my life, testimony has been a conscious choice - and this choice has given everything else in my life meaning. Building a testimony is the beginning of building a happy life. Testimony grows step by step as we invest the effort to exercise faith and hope as active parts of everyday living. Prayer is a major tool to help us gain faith and hope.

  Elaine L. Jack

  Life, Prayer, Exercise

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• The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Self, Mind

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.22, Broadway Books

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• A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its use. If the tool is a programming language this influence is, whether we like it or not, an influence on our thinking habits.... A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Learning, Thinking, Profound

  Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1976). “A Discipline of Programming”, Prentice Hall

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• One purpose of CRC cards [a design tool] is to fail early, to fail often, and to fail inexpensively. It is a lot cheaper to tear up a bunch of cards that it would be to reorganize a large amount of source code.

  Cay S. Horstmann

  Learning, Design, Tears

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• ...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every successful software tool that I encounter. During the past decade I was surprised to learn that the writing of programs for TeX and Metafont proved to be much more difficult than all the other things I had done (like proving theorems or writing books). The creation of good software demand a significiantly higher standard of accuracy than those other things do, and it requires a longer attention span than other intellectual tasks.

  Donald Knuth

  Book, Writing, Learning

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• I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Inspiration, Facts, Lord

  "Pope Benedict XVI resigns, leaving princes of the church speechless" by John Hooper, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2013.

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