Top 480 Tools Quotes

I collect old rusty hand tools and sharpen and polish them, then use them to build things out of walnut and cherry that I harvest from fallen trees in the woods.
John Grogan
Entrepreneurship is baked into the DNA of the Kansas Third District, and I’m proud to work with my colleagues in both parties to make sure our local businesses have the tools they need to take care of their employees, grow their companies, and contribute to our economy.
Sharice Davids
In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.
Beth Simone Noveck
The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.
Steven Sinofsky
The psychology of sport is so important. When you are standing at the crease, in front of a stadium full of people, it’s a pretty intense experience. So you need to have the psychological tools to control your mind and deliver your best performance.
Jos Buttler
As a Main Street businessman, I believe we need to reduce runaway federal spending and address our national debt and the MAP Act provides Congress with the tools to accomplish this goal.
Mike Braun
My mission is to give girls the tools to be able to blossom into their best selves.
Elizabeth Berkley
Everyone should have a life coach. We learn history, maths, and science at school, but we don’t have the tools to understand emotions: to release them and not hold on to anger.
Ashley Roberts
I’m not sure I’d be as successful as I am as a woman in a profession other than in technology. Because it tends to be a bit neutral. If you have the tools, if you can code, it’s a lot more sort of merit and recognizes talent.
Ory Okolloh
Central bankers have had enormous responsibilities thrust on them to compensate, essentially, for the failings of the political system. And my worry is we don’t have sufficient tools to do that, but we’re not willing to say it.
Raghuram Rajan
The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.
Albert Bandura
I’m kind of in between organized and messy, so if I have the right things to keep me organized, it’s easier for me to stay that way. If I don’t have the right tools, I’m a train wreck.
Odette Annable
Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it’s become a real problem for administrators that they don’t have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.
Nat Friedman
With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like a real online business. That’s a very valuable thing.
John Collison
I have a pro tools rig that I carry in my backpack.
will.i.am
Mediation is one of the most effective tools of non-vio

Mediation is one of the most effective tools of non-violence. It can turn parties away from conflict, towards compromise.
Miroslav Lajcak
One of the greatest tools you have as a songwriter is anonymity. If someone knows too much about the songwriter, they don’t get to insert their own characters. I don’t want the audience thinking about the gay guy who wrote the song.
Shane McAnally
Fox Interactive Media’s acquisitions of Newroo and kSolo demonstrate our commitment to empowering users with interesting tools that they can use to further enhance their online experience and online identity.
Ross Levinsohn
Things like chatbots, machine learning tools, natural language processing, or sentiment analysis are applications of artificial intelligence that may one day profoundly change how we think about and transact in travel and local experiences.
Gillian Tans
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
Robert Hughes
If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty. Find a way to give poor kids the same cognitive stimulus that rich kids receive, and they should end up with the same tools for success.
George Kaiser
My administration’s compact with the Filipino people will demand no less than the attainment of lasting peace and equitable prosperity. We will employ all the tools at our disposal to achieve this.
Benigno Aquino III
Tech companies are famous for providing freedom for engineers to customize their environments & experiment with new tools… allowing for this freedom helps creativity and productivity.
Alex Stamos
I would never make up a character who didn’t exist or an event that didn’t transpire. If you’re a real writer, you have other tools in your toolbox to build drama.
Koren Zailckas
‘Wag’ is not some kind of documentary; it’s just looking at the tools that are available. Now you’ve got more tools – you’ve got social media – and just post stories through all types of back channels that can get some traction.
Barry Levinson
The problem is that too many adults think their kids’ lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they’re young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.
Sherman Alexie
Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
John Ruskin
When I was little, I carried a book of times tables around everywhere and always tried to get the best score. I like the fact that you don’t need any tools, only your head. I also enjoy rules and, with maths, you are either right or wrong.
Rachel Riley
We all join the President in applauding the sacrifices made by our brave men and women in uniform. But we must continue to provide them the tools they need to accomplish the difficult tasks they face.
Dick Durbin
All I’m interested in is giving my players the tools they need to win.
Quique Setien
Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
Charles Kingsley
We developed simple test tools to optimize imaging parameters. No company was interested in our idea.
John Cameron
The critic has to do more of what the book critics and art critics have done in the past. Which is give you a context for understanding the restaurant, give you a better way to appreciate it, give you the tools to go in there and be a more informed diner who can get more pleasure out of the experience.
Ruth Reichl
Most moms and dads, they want to be good moms and dads. But it’s an incredibly hard job when you are stressed out, when you are poor, when your life is in chaos. And giving them some of the tools to be better parents, to whittle away at that parenting gap, gives those kids a much better starting point in life.
Nicholas Kristof
Since my kitchen is the most important part of my home, I want to be creative and innovative, not only in its aesthetic, but also in the tools that I’m using to cook.
Blake Lively
I’m an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers… They use my tools.
Robert Moog
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Thomas Carlyle
As a nation, we need to do everything we can to make sure those who have served have the tools they need to succeed in civilian life.
Tammy Duckworth
China has created very good investment tools, including an entire network of very large funds. The Russian Private Investment Fund works with some of those funds, with China’s largest investment funds.
Vladimir Putin
The rise of the social web promised a new era of personalization for globe-trotting. But like many things born online, as popularity of the new tools increased, efficiency and usefulness began to decrease.
Jenna Wortham
Here’s the reality: when Hillary Clinton won the nomination, the DNC handed her insufficient and substandard tools for success.
Tom Perez
Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples.
John Searle
Simply put, Guantanamo is one of the best propaganda tools that terrorists have today. Our enemies use it to justify terrorism and recruit others to carry out violent jihad, and our allies continue to criticize it as a violation of the rule of law.
Dianne Feinstein
The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.
Gail Sheehy
Stevie didn’t use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don’t use my work to further the tools.
Brian McKnight
I really wanna make hip-hop music, but I don’t know how to use any of the tools. Electronic, computer skills, I don’t have those for engineering or making beats. I don’t know how to use a sampler well. I don’t know how to use any of these things.
Ty Segall
Kids have tools to do what I'm doing.

Kids have tools to do what I’m doing.
Finneas
There was just so much attention that got focused on my story, and what that created was an opportunity for me to share what were the tools, what were the strategies, what was the thinking that had me break though those boundaries.
Liz Murray
I believe that art is a tool and that, like all tools, it has functions. I also think it is important to know what the tool is for so that we can better know how and when to use it.
Alain de Botton
Good writing is really meaningful, and it’s one of the – it’s still one of the best tools we have to get and capture people’s attention.
Robin Sloan
At the restaurant, we strive to create an excellent experience for our guests, and in the kitchen, we could not do this without having access to the best ingredients, equipment and tools, including Victorinox Cutlery.
Daniel Humm
Having the tools and the intangibles mean nothing unless you are surrounded by the best.
Mohamed Bamba
These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools.
Bob Filner