Top 464 Tool Quotes

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let’s say, instruments for working.

Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you’re just a tool for someone’s ideas.

I don’t think policy makers surprise unnecessarily. You don’t pick surprise as a part of your policy. Markets value a certain amount of predictability. But there are certain areas where surprise is a tool.

I was in the Black Power movement. I feel as energized about Black Lives Matter. I don’t feel in any way separated from Black Lives Matter. I do believe we are hand and glove. I am the legislative tool.

Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.

I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.

The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types of actors and directors and different styles of acting and build a tool box.

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

Monetary policy is a blunt tool which certainly affects the distribution of income and wealth, although whether the net effect is to increase or reduce inequality is not clear.

People all learn things differently, and sometimes imagination isn’t considered as useful a tool as it can be in the learning process – especially in school in subjects like math and science.

Cap and trade is an important tool in California’s climate policy portfolio. It sends a price signal to industries to reduce their carbon pollution while generating billions of dollars in revenue for investments in clean transportation and direct pollution reduction.

There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it’s a tool that we use in this world.

In archaeology, context is the basis of many discoveries that are imputed to the deliberate workings of intelligence. If I find a rock chipped in such a way as to give it a sharp edge, and the discovery is made in a cave, I am seduced into ascribing this to tool use by distant, fetid and furry ancestors.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

I think that fear is a mechanism a tool for control.

Positive thinking is a valuable tool that can help you overcome obstacles, deal with pain, and reach new goals.

Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind.

I could do a whole talk on the question of is AI dangerous.’ My response is that AI is not going to exterminate us. It’s a tool that’s going to empower us.

Not one person I know isn’t concerned with their appearance. To trivialize fashion is to rob ourselves of a great tool.

I still haven’t heard anything from Apple about my hacks. There is a tool based on my work reverse-engineering Apple’s FairPlay called jhymn that’s been hosted on a U.S. server for over a year and nothing has happened.

I was gifted with the ball, and I saw the opportunity of playing in the Bundesliga as the tool I needed to make a name for myself.

I used to go online all the time, and then I had to stop myself… because I’m a writer, and it’s like: to have a procrastination tool, like, within my computer… it was just getting too hairy.

The challenge of any business owner is not only to keep the saw sharp, but also to know if you even have a need for such a tool.

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

What we primarily need in Roblox games is character control, camera control and very straightforward tool, device and weapon use.

The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fought him to the degree that I drove me to be one of the most successful musician in the world.

We in the FBI have created a malware repository and analysis tool known as the Binary Analysis Characterization and Storage System, or BACSS, which provides near real-time investigative information. BACSS helps us link malware in different jurisdictions and paint a picture of cyber threats worldwide.

The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It’s not one or the other. It’s both.

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

I am now using media as a tool to bring attention to marginalized people.

I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor’s repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it’s the best tool. With size you get space and atmosphere: atmosphere becomes volume. You stand in the shape, in the zone.

Makeup is an extraordinary tool that allows me to share my inspirations, my fantasies, and my vision with the world.

Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.

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

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is… always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one’s own, in one’s relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

You can get more stuff done with Facebook than any other tool that we know of, and we’d like to make that available to the whole world.

My overall plan for Instagram is to continue to create a tool that will inspire people to use their visual voice.

You just don’t know when you get in the editing room what you will need as a link or a tool for a transition. If you’re in a room, and there’s a kettle boiling, get a shot of it. Don’t worry if people think you’re nuts.

I think the Internet’s been a tremendous tool in terms of breaking down the power structure of information and entertainment, particularly at a time when so much information and entertainment were in the hands of so few people, with multinationals owning everything.

I have a website because it’s an interesting tool, very – and quite unexpectedly – useful for my work. It’s become an archive and a fairly complete on-line portfolio, as well as offering an opportunity to write a little.

Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we have evolved a special physical route along which those subliminal feelings of social connection travel from skin to brain.

You can be very connected, computers are great, they can get you a ticket to Venezuela in five minutes; brilliant. But if you know your music and your history, you can make that work as a tool. If you don’t, you’re working as a slave to it.

If I could only have one grooming tool, it would be floss. I don’t want to have broken Cheetos in my teeth. To protect myself from the sun, I can find shade under a tree. To moisturize my skin, I could get really sweaty and then just rub it on myself. But how are you going to clean between your teeth without floss?

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.

If you can use songs as a tool, vehicle for empathy and a deeper understanding of how people are feeling and how people’s emotions work, there’s a lot of good that can come from that.

I’m of the philosophy that you wage a campaign of full engagement and you use every tool in the toolbox.

Most of the parts are really gone over and over and over again with Tool. It’s a very composed situation. We spend weeks if not months working on all those songs. There’s not much room for improvisation.

Regarding the VAR, it is a tool that can undoubtedly make us better. You have to use it because it gives us a clearer view of reality when you have to make quick decisions.

Every record I’ve ever done with Tool has been on tape.

I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly don’t have any routine. Usually the only time I practice is when the band gets together. Hendrix has always been one of my favorite players, but I was a sucker for Nugent in the late 1970’s.

I went into academia thinking that there’d be constant reciprocity between my scholarship and my creative work but found that doing one always turned my mind into the sort of tool that was badly suited to doing the other.

Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It’s an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.

I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.