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• The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Writing, Literature, Storytelling

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• I have dedicated my time here on earth to find the tools that can help each of us experience an extraordinary quality of life. I do believe that such a life can only be found by living one's true passion. Without passion, an individual gets caught in the trap of making a living instead of designing a life. When we fall into the trap of getting up each day to reenact an "ordinary" existence, we find ourselves at a level that is merely one of survival.

  Tony Robbins

  Believe, Fall, Passion

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• We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.

  Jason Silva

  Technology, Symbiosis, Possibility

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• Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.

  Bruce Lee

  Moments, Strikes, Martial Arts Inspirational

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.197, Tuttle Publishing

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• I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it work… You become very inventive with the restrictions you give yourself.

  Anton Corbijn

  School, Thinking, Giving

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• Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

  Bell Hooks

  Media, Black, Would Be

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• By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

  George Carlin

  Truth, Stupid People, Language

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I'd answer meekness, hands down. You can be a superb communicator but still never have the humility to ask, 'Is it I?' Communication skills are no substitute for Christlike attributes. As Dr. Douglas Brinley has observed, 'Without theological perspectives, secular exercises designed to improve our relationship and our communication skills (the common tools of counselors and marriage books) will never work any permanent change in one's heart: they simply develop more clever and skilled fighters!

  John Bytheway

  Clever, Communication, Book

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• What he has in addition is pure empathy and projection,” Dr. Bloom said. “He can assume your point of view, or mine – and maybe some other points of view that scare and sicken him. It’s an uncomfortable gift, Jack. Perception’s a tool that’s pointed on both ends.

  Thomas Harris

  Views, Empathy, Perception

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.189, Penguin

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• Somebody is going to find a way digitally that is just as innovative. In the end, the tools can change, but there is always someone who can think of something cool to do.

  Patton Oswalt

  Thinking, Way, Ends

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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• Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.

  Martin Seligman

  Fighting, Optimism, Achievement

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• We may treat of the Soul as in the body - whether it be set above it or actually within it - since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation, from the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body's experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.

  Plotinus

  Men, Two, Soul

  Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.16, Delphi Classics

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• Stone tools are fossilized human behavior.

  Louis Leakey

  Stones, Behavior, Humans

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• Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.

  Neville Brody

  Manipulation, Typography

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• I never demonstrate how art should be made or what the outcome should look like. Instead, give kids the tools and the materials to make their own art. Have them experience the process.

  Jerry Pinkney

  Art, Kids, Giving

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.

  Tony Kushner

  Writing, People, Political

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• Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, 'You're not using today's tools! Wake up!'

  George Lucas

  Teaching, Learning, Technology

  "Lucas starts new educational crusade / Magazine seeks to spur change in the classroom" by Dan Fost, www.sfgate.com. October 17, 2004.

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• A person could see a lot without ever leaving his own living room. Especially if he had the right tools.

  Stephen King

  Leaving, Rooms, Living Room

  Stephen King (2011). “11/22/63”, p.448, Simon and Schuster

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• Passion is what convinced armies that had no chance to win - it's believing that something can happen. Reality is what you make it to be. And when you're the only one who can see the way the future is going to be, you can be the tool that bends, rips, shapes and paints the future the way you want it to be. That's true passion!

  Garth Brooks

  Rip, Believe, Passion

  "Locked and Loaded". Interview with Kevin Freiberg, www.freibergs.com.

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• Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.

  Walt Whitman

  Writing, Tribes, Honest

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• Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Technology, Machines, Use

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.83, Harvard University Press

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• No amount of tools can help a bad product. You have to remain genuine in your product development innovation and quality.

  Kara Swisher

  Innovation, Quality, Development

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• Meetings get a bad rap, and deservedly so - most are disorganized and distracted. But they can be a critical tool for getting your team on the same page.

  Justin Rosenstein

  Team, Rap, Pages

  "The Five Secrets To Leading Great Meetings" by Justin Rosenstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2013.

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• We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Home, Machines, Barbarians

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• Father's Day: When you get that lethal combination of alcohol and new power tools.

  David Letterman

  Father, Alcohol, Combination

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