Tools Quotes - Page 2

• First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us

  Marshall McLuhan

  Shapes, Firsts

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• Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That's pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago.

  Carl Sagan

  Eye, Errors, Zest

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• All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

  Carlos Slim

  Good Times, All Time, Know How

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• Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started.

  Ben Linder

  Ukulele, Choices, Done

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• Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.

  Carl Sagan

  Passion, Learning, Science

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• Your imagination is an extremely powerful tool.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Powerful, Imagination

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• Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, Shapes

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• Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Uptight, Tables

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

  Charles Kingsley

  Work, Christian Inspirational, Thee

  Charles Kingsley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Kingsley (Illustrated)”, p.4065, Delphi Classics

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• Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness mean? It means you appreciate what is. You value, you give attention to, you honor whatever is here at this moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Appreciation

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jan 03, 2011

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• A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

  Milan Kundera

  Ideas, Hammers, May

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• The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

  Plato

  Plato, Men, Would Be

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.257, Xist Publishing

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• Handle your tools without mittens.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Work, Mittens, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (1848). “The Way to Wealth”, p.3

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• Everyone's doing the best they can with the tools they were given.

  Jaime Murray

  Given

  "Jaime Murray: Taking Care of Heart, Mind, and Body". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Man is a tool-making animal

  Benjamin Franklin

  Animal, Men, Statistics

  Quoted in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 7 Apr. 1778)

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• Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.

  Peter Drucker

  Logic, Materials, Application

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.205, Routledge

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• A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

  George Herbert

  Quarrels, Workmen

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• Intuition is the number one tool in the toolbox.

  Matthew Mellon

  Numbers, Intuition, Toolbox

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• Men have become the tools of their tools.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Witty, Work, Humorous

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.

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• There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

  Freeman Dyson

  People, Use, Satisfaction

  "Disturbing the universe". Book by Freeman Dyson, 1979.

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• 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

  Discouraged, Ifs

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Power, Men, Hands

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• If you don't think you can do it, who will? You control the most important tool in success, your mind.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

  Jeffrey Gitomer (2014). “The Sales Bible, New Edition: The Ultimate Sales Resource”, p.50, John Wiley & Sons

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• Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the 'time to be right' to start doing something worthwhile. Do not wait. The time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

  Napoleon Hill

  Waiting, May, Found

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

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• We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

  John F. Kennedy

  Funny, Time, Presidential

  John F. Kennedy's Address in New York City to the National Association of Manufacturers, www.jfklibrary.org. December 5, 1961.

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