Tool Quotes

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.

The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.

See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.

Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of.

I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

I yearn to see other chief executives throughout the nation follow suit, so that as a people we may hasten the elimination of barbarism as a tool of American justice.

I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.

Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development.

The Internet has become a tool to pick on people and ruin someone's life. I don't think parents realize what's going on.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

I think God has chosen to use this as a tool.

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

The Internet is the greatest tool for any artist to have interaction with any audience.

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie.

All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.