It is difficult to overstate the importance of media as a tool to encourage civic engagement and participation, and the importance of a diverse and well-informed public.
‘American Idol,’ for me, is fizzling out. They can’t package me, man… I’m an artist that’s created this concept but used the ‘American Idol’ machine as a marketing tool.
Film is a tool of change.
See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
IPS cells can become a powerful tool to develop new drugs to cure intractable diseases because they can be made from patients’ somatic cells.
Overall, Twitter has been a great tool for myself and my family as far as promoting our charity and the events we do and really just kind of interacting with our fans. But it can be in the negative form, and guys have to be careful.
It’s so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. It’s like the world’s weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, ‘Who is this tool standing up in front of us?’
There’s no question in my mind of the value in technology in fueling young minds. Like any other tool, if you simply throw it in the classroom and don’t consider how best to take advantage of that tool, and you try the old ways with a new piece of technology on the desk, it’s no panacea.
I don’t write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that’s it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
The best way ideally to stop a wide receiver in the driver’s seat is to get a jam on him and slow up their timing. But it just so happens that’s literally my strongest tool in my bag. I just bank on me being faster and a little bit more technical than whoever it is that I’m playing.
The Internet is an important organizing tool. But the goal of a campaign isn’t to use the Internet for organizing; the goal is always to win, and to change policy and politics.
Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.
Failure is a great learning tool.
My feeling is there’s a lot of straight drama on television. My goal in life is to try to create something unexpected, and genre is the tool in doing that.
For me, the most indispensable tool for wrapping presents is a wife.
In modelling or football, being 30 is very bad. But, for an actress, ageing is like wine. You taste better and better because your body, your mind, your feelings, all this is a tool and it’s getting sharper with time.
I don’t see why I should be ashamed of my body. That’s the one tool I use as a performer.
Enterprise search is becoming an indispensable tool to businesses of all sizes, helping people to find, use and share critical business information quickly.
Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other, creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans.
A lot of people in my generation, we use hip-hop as a tool to compose.
Much like dystopian and post-apocalyptic books are a way to explore the worst-case scenarios lurking around the corner, fantasy can serve as a wonderful tool for showing kids that they have an inherent power in them to create change, both in themselves and in their community.
We have a great group of people and sponsors around us, and you don’t want to send them out as outcasts because you have this newfound success and this new tool of things you can sell.
M&A is always an opportunistic tool to grow a company.
There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.
Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God’s sovereignty and disobeyed God’s law. But Moses was told explicitly, God’s blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God’s tool of dominion, biblical law.
I am not obsessed with social media fame, but I do think that it’s a great tool by which I can stay in touch with my fans.
The mobile phone… is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.
Business is a useful tool in politics, but it’s not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.
I enjoy my John Deere tractor quite a lot. It’s a tool that I must use to keep Mother Nature at bay. I have all kinds of things encroaching on my property.
Hoosiers have seen good paying jobs leave our state for decades because of NAFTA and other bad trade deals from Washington. President Trump is using tariffs as a negotiating tool to fix these problems that have been baked into the international economy for decades.
The body is an actor’s tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.
Nationalism is a tool increasingly used by leaders to bolster their authority, especially amid difficult economic and political conditions.
Saudi Arabia is a very responsible country. For decades, we used our oil policy as responsible economic tool and isolated it from politics.
I have had acupuncture regularly, and I engage in visualization, which is actually an actor’s tool, visualizing myself kicking out the cancer, making up scenarios.
As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.
Taxes are an important tool for us together with infrastructure investments, research, and development to create more jobs.
When they invented the Steadicam, every movie had to have a fight in a stairwell. Whenever there’s a new thing, it’s abused until artists realize what a Steadicam as a tool can be. And now I defy people to be able to see Steadicam shots, because we know how to do them and make them invisible.
It’s not easy for an entrepreneur to find the time to blog. But for those who do it, it is a great tool to communicate with the various stakeholders in their business and build a reputation for thought leadership.
I enjoy social media, but I don’t take it as gospel. Yes, it can make me feel insecure if I see my peers doing more than me. You have to remind yourself it’s a marketing tool, a facade, but that’s easier when you are older.
I only wanted to play the guitar so I could write music. As soon as I learned my first three chords I wrote my first song. It was just a tool to get me to be able to do the thing that I wanted to do.
When people suffer from depression or anxiety or any sort of pain/mental anguish combo, being able to take the power out of it through laughter is a pretty powerful tool.
We believe that Ripple will change the way the world thinks about and uses currency through universal access to a trusted, transparent, and easy-to-understand multi-currency financial tool.
I’ve used my sense of humor as a coping tool. It’s gotten me through a lot of challenging times.
The trouble with ecological invocations of Nature is that they’re like calling for a medieval tool, perhaps a portcullis or an arrow slit, to fix a modern problem.
I can’t tell you how many letters I’ve gotten where someone showed ‘Sordid Lives’ to their mom, dad, or family and used it as a tool to come out.
I use fitness as a grounding tool to keep me balanced; nutrition is the same, to keep me at optimum levels.
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
Under Marxism-Leninism, the self-proclaimed ideology of the Chinese Communist Party, individuals do not possess inherent value. People are merely a tool to achieve the ends of the collective nation-state. The idea may sound inhumane, but it is as fundamental to the CCP as the Bill of Rights is to Americans.
Stoking fears of a potential shutdown is a strong motivational tool to get members on board with legislation that they don’t want to support. Both parties are guilty of this.
I have run from a lot of relationships in favor of being alone. And I tend to find men who use their money and status as a dating tool to be unattractive.
All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn’t want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
I am making use of social media as a marketing tool. It’s a great way to market yourself and your projects. It’s a free marketing tool.
When you have a CEO who is an ex-CMO, that is going to put the marketing tool kit front and center.
I was living in London with my brother, and he was a friend of Matt Marshall, who signed Tool. So we were the first people over in Europe to get the first Tool demo in 1991, and me and my brother immediately cottoned on to it.
More than just music, the splash of water or a lone footstep can put you in the moment. Sound is just another tool in the developer’s toolbox to draw the player further into the game.
Fashion is not superficial; it is a dynamic tool to transform oneself, and it can be used to command the attention of those around you.
In academia in general, there’s this push toward using comics as an educational tool.
