Tools Quotes - Page 25

• Several of our players at Stanford have used the J-Glove and J-Strap with excellent results. It is a very useful training tool for the player looking to improve both their shot and their percentage. I would recommend it to anyone looking for that extra edge.

  Tara VanDerveer

  Player, Training, Gloves

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• The fork is your most powerful tool to change your health and the planet; food is the most powerful medicine to heal chronic illness.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Powerful, Health, Medicine

  35 Copy quote

• The truth is I couldn’t care less about needing a supposed 'thigh gap.' It’s just another tool of manipulation that other people are trying to use to keep me from loving my body. Why would I want to starve and weaken my natural body size? I’m not saying women who have it naturally are unattractive. But I would have to change my entire frame just to achieve something that seems so trivial.

  Robyn Lawley

  People, Trying, Use

  "Why The Dangerous ‘Thigh Gap’ Trend Makes Me Mad" by Robyn Lawley, www.thedailybeast.com. October 28, 2013.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.

  Hugh Hopper

  Technology, Horror, Wonderful

  6 Copy quote

• For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts and principles by means of which new theories can be created.

  Freeman Dyson

  Mean, Math, Justice

  8 Copy quote

• New directions in science are launched by new tools much more often than by new concepts. The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.

  Freeman Dyson

  Old Things, Entrepreneur, Way

  6 Copy quote

• A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Book, Would Be, Lawyer

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.922, Library of America

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Ideas, People, Trying

  6 Copy quote

• Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.

  William Wordsworth

  Art, Pride, Hands

  5 Copy quote

• Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Weapons, Way

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

  Omar Bongo

  Communication, Favors, Information

  8 Copy quote

• They are an essential tool to give new life to what you already have in your wardrobe. Accessories are like vitamins to fashion: you should use them liberally as such.

  Anna Dello Russo

  Fashion, Giving, Essentials

  30 Copy quote

• While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool.

  Albert Einstein

  May, Blind, Individual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.359, Broadway Books

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket.

  Albert Einstein

  Important, Physicist, Theoretical

  5 Copy quote

• Never mistake law for justice. Justice is an ideal, and law is a tool.

  L.E. Modesitt Jr.

  Mistake, Law, Justice

  L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (2010). “Ordermaster”, p.265, Macmillan

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cameras and lenses are simply tools to place our unique vision on film.  Concentrate on equipment and you'll take technically good photographs. Concentrate on seeing the light's magic colors and your images will stir the soul.

  Jack Dykinga

  Unique, Light, Color

  7 Copy quote

• Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t see.

  Emmet Gowin

  Photography, Photographer, Attending

  12 Copy quote

• Alienation is perhaps the most effective tool of control in America, and every reminder of our real connectedness weakens that tool.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Real, America, Reminders

  8 Copy quote

• How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his own experience - free from the clouds of religiosity that often surround them Yet it's difficult to distinguish the tools themselves from their cultural packaging.

  Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

  Teaching, Clouds, Practice

  23 Copy quote

• I don’t think there is any mystery to understanding the passionate feelings people have for guns. Nobody really believes it’s about maintaining a militia. It’s about having possession of a tool that makes a person feel powerful nearly to the point of exaltation.

  Alec Wilkinson

  Powerful, Believe, Gun

  "The Dark Presence of Guns". www.newyorker.com. December 22, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• If someone doesn’t want to be a criminal anymore, I can give them tools that can better their life. You have no idea how many people want to know what Scientology is.

  Tom Cruise

  Ideas, People, Giving

  7 Copy quote