Tools Quotes

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas Jefferson

Ambition, Virtue, Fit

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius

Life, Work, Perfect

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.
Steve Jobs

Faith, Good, Technology

Men have become the tools of their tools.
Henry David Thoreau

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau

Time, Working, Water

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Bill Gates

Computers, Creativity, Become

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.
Steve Jobs

Faith, Work, Long

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
Samuel Adams

Words, Meaning, Tyrant

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
Louis Gerstner

Love, Dreams, Computers

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.
Peter Drucker

Person, Teach, Capable

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Edmund Burke

Lie, Sin, Handle

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.
Bill Gates

Powerful, Bad, Democracy

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Thomas Carlyle

Nothing, Animal

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.
Colin Powell

Experience, Find, Talk

Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.
Marco Rubio

Hope, Help, Give

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.
George Herbert

Work, Time, May

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
Blaise Pascal

Truth, Justice, Touch

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
Benjamin Disraeli

Done, Using, Parties

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Useful, Bar, Architect

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
Audre Lorde

House, Master, Dismantle

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
John Ruskin

Work, Men, Perfect

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
Stephen King

Time, Write, Read

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
Haim Ginott

Impossible, Times, Miracle

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
Marshall McLuhan

Become, Shape, Behold

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.
Paul Farmer

Someone, Suffering, Moral

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
Washington Irving

Learning, Greatest, Growing

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
Stephen Jay Gould

Political, Learn, Follow

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
Charles Kingsley

Work, God, Find

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them.
Mark Zuckerberg

Important, Real, Control

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people's capacity to build and maintain relationships.
Mark Zuckerberg

Help, Share, Build

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