More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.
I think a lot of people overlook the importance of the menu as a marketing tool and a way of communicating to the customer what the ambition of their restaurant is. Not only the typeface and the design, but what is it printed on? Is it cheap-looking? Is it the right kind of paper for that restaurant?
I always think that in some way, art is the best tool we have to prepare for death. It’s like a sculpture that you can interpret differently every time you look at it.
Whether you write down your to-do lists in a notebook or use a tool like Evernote, to-do lists can be a real life-saver, since it reduces the stress of trying to remember things like a meeting or what you need to pick up at the grocery store.
I have always felt that the Internet was a more important research tool for a writer than an artist.
My relationship with money is that it’s a tool to be self-sufficient, but it’s not something that is a part of who I am.
I wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed, and I wasn’t the biggest, so I got real good at running my mouth and making people laugh and using humor as a way to not get into fights.
You don’t have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you’ve artificially placed on your life. It’s easy to believe everything has to be done one way if you’re always in one place around the same people.
Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
A lot of people, even if they know what VR is, see it as this tool to go in your basement and play Halo.
Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.
We’ve toured with so many bands, and we’ve noticed that there are a few of them… Metallica, Rammstein, Tool – those aren’t bands, those are events.
Your imagination is your most important tool as an actor, as cheesy as that sounds.
I’ll just say it: I’m not the sharpest tool in the box. Being forced to go back to school is still a fear of mine.
Access to the Internet is an essential tool for equipping students with 21st century skills.
In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.
All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test… better. It’s a negotiation tool.
Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.
Teaching money management is a practical tool that will help shape kids’ futures.
Unlike tongs, these tweezer tongs are slim and compact, fitting into any tool crock, drawer, or even apron pocket if youre all about that quick draw. Theres no fussy locking mechanism to slow you down while cooking, no weird nooks or pockets for food or hot water to get caught in.
But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.
Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader’s toolkit.
Jazz was more of a tool for me to use to enhance my musicality.
As a communication medium, social media is a critical tool for terror groups to exploit.
A whole series of events pushed me towards meditation, and now it’s become such an integral part of the way I manage myself. It’s a tool for me; when you’re an entrepreneur, and you’re pulled in every direction, it is wonderful to have this discipline.
Keeping the risk management plan up to date can transform it from a door stop into a vital project management tool. Remember: what you don’t know can kill your project.
My dad taught me that language was a powerful tool.
Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.
I do not celebrate the appointment of women to high positions in regimes where cruelty is a favored tool of governance by a patriarchy; if they accept, they are nothing short of foot soldiers of that patriarchy and the violence it has instituted.
One’s ability to enter into thousands of lawsuits as a tool for success, or to use bankruptcy to avoid paying your former employees and vendors, have little relevance when trying to create good government.
Anything new is always considered the devil’s tool.
The main benefit of the book for the more experienced practitioners is as an evangelical tool. The book will give you some ways of expressing the value and importance of your work that you may not have had before.
Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
I had originally written ‘Pariah’ as a feature, and we shot the first act as a short film, and then we used the short as a marketing tool to fundraise for the feature.
The best thing to do is always keep randomly generated passwords everywhere and use a password tool to manage it, and then you don’t have to remember those passwords at all, just the master password that unlocks the database.
Being anonymous is a great luxury. It’s a big loss to lose that. Mostly, the loss is the ability to observe others without being observed yourself. And as an actor, that is your key tool.
Music is a tool that brings people together.
Accents can be a great tool to tell a story – but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.
I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn’t seem too preachy because you’re also making people laugh, so it’s really kind of a good tool for messaging.
Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.
People spend an enormous amount of time in their inboxes, compulsively checking, and it’s slow, distracting, and inefficient. It’s almost a counterproductivity tool.
Stand-up is still my favorite, but the podcast is a close second. It’s so fun, and it’s given me the opportunity to have three-hour conversations with people I wouldn’t have otherwise been able to talk to. When I talked to Maynard Keenan from Tool, I almost couldn’t believe it was happening.
This is why it’s hard to talk about winning awards. You can’t do it without sounding like a tool.
Genetic modification is a very powerful tool. But like any powerful tool, when using it, you have to take into account the environmental impact, the food safety aspects and so on. There must be a strong regulatory mechanism.
The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home, you feel impacted by not having it. It’s an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century.
The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys do, and women never lose that superiority in verbal ability.
When I went to see certain shows when I was a kid, they changed my life. They made me tap into that place inside myself that I was unable to get to, so music is that tool, that bridge, and that’s the kind of music I’m interested in making.
My body is my art, and it’s also the tool that I use to make money.
The Russian Federation’s practice of instant citizenship, whereby Russian passports are distributed willy-nilly to ethnic Russians abroad so they can be ‘protected’ in their current homeland, is unacceptable. Passports are travel documents, not a tool to justify aggression.
By law and institutional culture, FDA seeks to apply a single tool to its approach to regulation – the requirement for pre-market approval. The agency is accustomed to compelling innovators to submit evidence to FDA and seek permission for marketing.
It’s okay to be inspired by other people and it can be a useful learning tool to play other people’s music, but let out what’s inside of you.
Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle – so you’re a tool.
My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.
Let’s be honest here: Twitter, for me, is 90 per cent a marketing tool.
Alternative therapists don’t kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.
Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.
My prime interests are in evolution and development. I use the cellular slime molds as a tool to seek an understanding of those twin disciplines.
One thing that’s always been important to me is to try and build a tool kit, drumming-wise, that was diverse and wide-ranging in terms of what I played.
