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.

Not only is yoga excellent for flexibility, but it is also a great tool for longevity and injury prevention, as it allows for internal body awareness.

Pay-for-procedure or fee-for-service reimbursement rewards doctors and hospitals for volume - not keeping patients healthy or being efficiency. Pay-for-Performance is clearly one tool that can change the incentives to reward quality.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

In terms of weapons, the best disarmament tool so far is nuclear energy. We have been taking down the Russian warheads, turning it into electricity. 10 percent of American electricity comes from decommissioned warheads.

CGI has a lot of backlash now. I think it's just because there are so many people doing it. It's a tool and it's only as good as the people behind it.

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

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.

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.

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.