Tools Quotes - Page 34

• Business plans are the tool existing companies use for execution. They are the wrong tool to search for a business model.

  Steve Blank

  Use, Execution, Blank

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• What differentiates the success stories from the failures is that the successful entrepreneurs had the foresight, the ability, and the tools to discover which parts of their plans were working brilliantly and which were misguided, and adapt their strategies accordingly.

  Eric Ries

  Successful, Entrepreneur, Stories

  FaceBook post by Eric Ries from Dec 08, 2016

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• As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors. I love to hike, kayak, and swim. I also love to read (which is probably not a surprise) and I love the theater and art museums. I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills.

  Sharon Creech

  Art, Book, Museums

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• Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you just as the highwayman’s gun. You must live … You can’t work for yourself … The factories, machinery, and tools belong to the employing class, so you must hire yourself out to that class in order to work and live. Whatever you work at, whoever your employer may be, it always comes to the same: you must workfor him. You can’t help yourself. You are compelled.

  Alexander Berkman

  Gun, Order, Class

  Alexander Berkman (2010). “Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism”, p.17, Lulu.com

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• But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Fall, Artist, Two

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• The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization.

  Julian Assange

  Civilization, Internet, Dangerous

  "Cypherpunks: Freedom And The Future Of The Internet". Book by Julian Assange, www.theguardian.com. 2012.

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• The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be too refined.

  Lars Leksell

  Brain, Tasks, Used

  Lars Leksell (1971). “Stereotaxis and Radiosurgery: An Operative System”

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• No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.

  Charles Lyell

  Facts, Negative, Valleys

  Charles Lyell (2005). “The Geological Evidence of Man”, p.119, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged.

  Oliver Sacks

  Unique, Alzheimer's, Disorder

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• I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.

  Tanya Tucker

  Party, Thinking, Used

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• So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

  Hans Blix

  Interviews, Certain, Circumstances

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• We're democratizing the tools of creativity.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Creativity

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• I want people to know they don’t have to live their lives in a permanent ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ existence. Truth is a powerful tool.

  E. Lynn Harris

  Powerful, People, Want

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• The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.

  Brian Kernighan

  Debugging, Programming, Print

  "Unix for Beginners". Paper by Brian Kernighan, 1979.

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• I definitely use 'smiling while rapping' as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording.

  Macklemore

  Fun, Rap, Use

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life that the steps of his progress are taken without improper aids; that he calls no one master, that he does not win or deserve the reputation of being a tool of others, and that if called to public service he may assume its duties with the satisfaction of knowing that he is free to rise to the height of his opportunity.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Taken, Winning, Opportunity

  Charles Evans Hughes (1910). “Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government”

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• I believe that our world needs an instrument of global action as never before in history. I believe that the United Nations is the instrument for securing peace and for giving people everywhere, in poorer countries as in richer, a real stake in that peace by promoting development and encouraging cooperation. But the United Nations is only an instrument, an actor in need of props and cues from its directors, And so I will paraphrase Winston Churchill: Give us the tools-the trust, the authority and the means-and we will do the job.

  Kofi Annan

  Trust, Country, Jobs

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• The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from its proper function, but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose. The law has become a tool for every kind of greed. Instead of preventing crime, the law itself is guilty of the abuses it is supposed to punish. If this is true, it is a serious matter, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Greed, Political

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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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• Critics have stepped up their attacks on the President for authorizing the National Security Agency to listen to international communications of known al Qaeda members or affiliated terrorists during a time of war. The American people expect their leaders to stay a step ahead of the enemy, and the National Security Agency authorization is a critical tool in the War on Terror that saves lives and protects civil liberties at the same time.

  Scott McClellan

  War, Communication, Agency

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• Magic, like technology, is a tool.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Technology, Magic

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• Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.

  Charles C. Mann

  Party, Two, Textbooks

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• Work/life benefits allow companies meaningful ways for responding to their employees' needs; they can be a powerful tool for transforming a workforce and driving a business' success.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Meaningful, Powerful, Business Success

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• You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.

  Barry Mann

  Writing, Creating, Mad

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• I've always considered transcribing to be an invaluable tool in the development of one's musical ear and, over the years, I have spent countless glorious hours transcribing different kinds of music, either guitar-oriented or not.

  Steve Vai

  Guitar, Years, Musical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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