This Edition: tool
Quoted in The Grove:
Tools for success: For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
~James Allen
Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
~George Herbert
Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.
~Bruce Lee
EndQuote:
Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me to find out what you’re good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.
~Orson Scott Card
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Prewritten Prompt circa 09.14: time
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I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it work. You become very inventive with the restrictions you give yourself.
~Anton Corbijn
The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
~Ben Okri
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Blunt tools are sometimes found of use where sharper instruments would fail.
~Charles Dickens
Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will have the use of both kinds.
~Gregory Bateson
A wise Man will make Tools of what comes to Hand.
~Thomas Fuller
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We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it to gravel, we can shape it into glory. Examples from every other life are left for us to see, lifeworks finished and unfinished, guiding and warning. Near the end our sculpture is nearly finished, and we can smooth and polish what we started years before.
~Richard Bach
…pens and brushes are merely tools you employ in the inking process. Any line the inker draws is a combination of what the tool can produce and what is inside the head of the artist. If you want to draw a fat line, you will find a way to do it no matter what instrument you use. If the pen is mightier than the sword, then the brain is mightier than the pen.
~Klaus Janson
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey-wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
~Rupert Hughes
But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends.
~Ted Dekker
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Posted From The Grove
Every child has a dream, to pursue the dream is in every child’s hand to make it a reality. One’s invention is another’s tool.
~Samuel Morse
A tool is but the extension of a man’s hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the wellbeing of mankind.
~Henry Ward Beecher
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
~Freeman Dyson
The point is that I don’t design stuff for myself. I’m a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.
~Robert Moog
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
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Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.
~Bjarne Stroustrup
Who knows what technology will emerge in the next five years, let alone 20. Yet the education we provide our children now is supposed to last for decades. We cannot train them for jobs that do not even exist yet, but we can provide them with the minds and tools they’ll need to adapt to our ever-changing set of circumstances.
~Jim Hunt
The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.
~Albert Bandura
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The mind is left bereft when it is nothing more than a tool of regurgitation.
~Corey Taylor
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s job with yesterday’s tools and yesterday’s concepts.
~Marshall McLuhan
Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, ‘You’re not using today’s tools! Wake up!’
~George Lucas
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
~Mortimer Adler
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There is no easy way to train an apprentice. My two tools are example and nagging.
~Daniel Handler
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the ‘naturals,’ the ones who somehow know how to teach.
~Peter Drucker
I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.
~Haim Ginott
I never demonstrate how art should be made or what the outcome should look like. Instead, give kids the tools and the materials to make their own art. Have them experience the process.
~Jerry Pinkney
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Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.
~Jaron Lanier
You are not on this planet to produce anything with your body. You are on this planet to produce something with your soul. Your body is simply and merely the tool of your soul. Your mind is the power that makes the body go. So what you have here is a power tool, used in the creation of the soul’s desire.
~Neale Donald Walsch
To those of us who often procrastinate on the decision we feel intimidated by…I relieve you with this statement: It is not how much you know that arms you with the tools of great decision making, but rather how much you ask. Ask questions.
~T D Jakes
Our passion for learning … is our tool for survival.
~Carl Sagan
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~5-Minute Crafts for Men: 40 Simple Life Hacks for Men (9:54) uninspired, but useful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPRFl6z4_HY
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~Charlie Prince: Kestrel Tool (5:40) carving tools, native American art, a plea for help and a slice of life
https://vimeo.com/89822198
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~Eraldo Cuko: Tool – Skin (1:10) a brief celebration
https://vimeo.com/183437009
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~Joy & Misery: Tool (9:57) disgustipated? mesmerizing for its weirdness
https://vimeo.com/1629777
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~Noah Kalina: 7777 Days (2:19) self-portrait every day, 21 years, a man ages, only his eyes hold steady, remain unchanged, hypnotic, refutes the insult of time: his tool – a camera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC1KHAxE7mo
Thx to: Rusty’s Electric Dreams
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Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species — back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire — has been ethically ambiguous.
~Carl Sagan
Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
~Alva Myrdal
Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own side. Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
~R Buckminster Fuller
Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it. Weapons are unhappy tools, not chosen by thoughtful people; to be used only when there is no choice, and with a calm, still mind, without enjoyment. To enjoy using weapons is to enjoy killing people, and to enjoy killing people is to lose your share in the common good.
~Ursula K Le Guin
We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
~Winston Churchill
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I never wanted to be feared. If I regret one thing, it is the fear I have caused. Fear is the tool of tyrants. Unfortunately, when the fate of the world is in question, you use whatever tools are available.
~Brandon Sanderson
As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from crank to demagogue. When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
~Stephen Jay Gould
With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made “legal.” Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.
~Eric Metaxas
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Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.
~Walter M Miller, Jr
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
~Doug Coupland
History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
~Ted Koppel
The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal
~Paul Gauguin
Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot.
~Nick Rahall
The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.
~Tony Kushner
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VIDEO:
We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.
~Jason Silva
If you stumble over mere believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe? Reason is excellent for getting food, clothing and shelter. Reason is the very best tool kit. Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater
~Yann Martel
Faith is the commitment of one’s consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof… A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feelings with knowledge
~Nathaniel Branden
Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discovering them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality — it is our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see. …The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason.
~Terry Goodkind
Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.
~Charles Bukowski
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.
~Philip K Dick
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Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.
~Carl Jung
Eratosthenes’s only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That’s pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago.
~Carl Sagan
The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or play-withs but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Science is an art form and not a philosophical method. The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines… Every time we introduce a new tool, it always leads to new and unexpected discoveries, because Nature’s imagination is richer than ours.
~Freeman Dyson
Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime… What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches to the door and to the first stair you ascent, that this is the road to the stars.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Broken tools can be replaced. You can’t.
~Author unknown
To learn about eye protection, ask someone who has one.
~Author unknown
Your safety gears are between your ears.
~Author unknown
Don’t learn safety by accident.
~Author unknown
For safety is not a gadget but a state of mind.
~Eleanor Everet
Know safety, no injury. No safety, know injury.
~Author unknown
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[E]dged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
~Agnes Reppllier
‘Tis dangerous meddling with edge-tools.
~John Tatham
Count fingers before and after using a circular saw.
~Andy Lee
‘oh dear, what an edged tool you are!’
‘Don’t play with me then’
~Charles Dickens
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It was a great question among Carpenters whether this wood should be a God or a stool…. the Prophets discoursed against them in the matter of images, they called them wood and stone, Gold and Silver, and represented the folly of putting trust in things that had no life
~Jeremy Taylor
The gods do make playthings of us … but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.
~Melina Marchetta
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~Omeleto: The Shabbos Goy (7:01) when an intimate tool goes rogue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIige41_h1Q
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~Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: If I Had a Hammer (2:14) under extreme provocation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOnIqWuSCIk
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~KIITOS LAB: Tool (0.33) half-minute cartoon parable
https://vimeo.com/131160211
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If you have the tools but do not have the visual concept, the tools do not work
~Betty Poluk
I always found it rather pathetic that as a photographer I would be dependent to such a large extent on sheer luck… So the moment I was offered [digital] tools to bend the shape of the image into my choices, and not those of lady luck, I was hooked.
~Pedro Meyer
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
~R Buckminster Fuller
The most unknown, unused and unrecognized tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice
~Mark Horton
A good tool improves the way you work. A great tool improves the way you think.
~Jeff Duntemann
A language like Ruby is a toolbox with some really neat little tools that do their job really nicely. JavaScript is a leather sheath with a really really sharp knife inside. That knife can cut anything, and with it you can do anything. You can kill a bear. You can catch fish. You can whittle a piece of wood into a pony. It’s even a toothpick.
~Nick Morgan
I work with a lot of music programs and there’s a steep learning curve to a lot of them. You can really find yourself trying to figure out how to do things, instead of making music.
~Joe
This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year there is a better camera to buy and new software to download. The user never has time to become comfortable with the tool. Consequently too much of the work is merely about the technology. The HDR and QTVR fads are good examples. Instead of focusing on the subject, users obsess over RAW conversion, Photoshop plug-ins, and on and on. For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.
~Alec Soth
If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Just in the past couple years, we’ve seen digital tools display skills and abilities that…eat deeply into what we human beings do for a living.
~Andrew McAfee
Are the tools without, which the carpenter puts forth his hands to, or are they and all the carpentry within himself; and would he not smile at the notion that chest or house is more than he?
~C A Bartol
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
~Audre Lorde
Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.
~Stephen Covey
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Tools, of course, can be the subtlest of traps.
~Neil Gaiman
Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
~John Ruskin
But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.
~Henry David Thoreau
The hand is the tool of tools.
~Aristotle
We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.
~Marshall McLuhan
Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The tools belong to the man who can use them.
~Napoleon Bonaparte
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You have to pick the right tool for the point you’re trying to make and there is no one solution.
~Jay Maisel
The most important tool you have on a resume is language.
~Jay Samit
Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.
~Natalie Goldberg
Finding the tool is often half the battle.
~Andy Rooney
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MUSIC:
If Mozart had power tools, there’s no telling how great his music might have been.
~Dave Barry
Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.
~Hugh Hopper
Smash creative blocks. Change the problem or sneak up on it from a different direction. Try something fresh – a new way with an old theme, a different point of view, unusual tool.
~Nita Leland
I do the best I can with any instrument I get attracted to. But they’re just tools in order for you to express yourself and that’s really the upshot of it.
~John Mayall
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The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and relaxation within his own body, the sense of balance that distinguishes the proud stability of the vertical from the risky adventures of thrusting and falling — these are the tools of the dancer.
~Rudolf Arnheim
Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.
~Kathryn Bigelow
I’ve always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don’t know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I’m a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.
~Andy Serkis
The tools are real. The viewer is real, you, the artist, is real and a part of everything you paint. You connect yourself to the viewer by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you. All you have to do it with is a brush, some chemical and canvas, and technique.
~Steven Brust
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Whether made into a wooden pillow or table,
wood with excellent fine grain is a guarantee of splendid poems,
and the composition of perfect documents.
~Liú Shéng
Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could.
~Paulo Coelho
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“Difficulty” is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are.
~Paulo Coelho
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
~Robert Kennedy
Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.
~Veronica Roth
Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool… Changing even the bad things that have gone before would fundamentally change who we are, and whether or not that would be a good thing, I believe, it is impossible to predict. So I take my past experiences… and try to regret nothing.
~R A Salvatore
Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools – but they must be kept to a minimum.
~Jeffrey R Immelt
You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.
~Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is essential to have good tools, but it is also essential that the tools should be used in the right way.
~Wallace D Wattles
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~Arlo Guthrie: If I Had a Hammer (2:23) Pete Seeger tribute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2klkWlqf_o
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~Desiree Dawson: Meet You At The Light (6:09) saying goodbye, inconsolable loss
https://vimeo.com/592468585
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~Clamavi De Profundis: When the Hammer Falls (4:54) manly chanting (Lord Of The Rings)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm96Cqu4Ils
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Dear Miss Independent, I’ve decided that of all the women I’ve ever known, you are the only one I will ever love more than hunting, fishing, football, and power tools. You may not know this, but the other time I asked you to marry me, the night I put the crib together, I meant it. Even though I knew you weren’t ready. God, I hope you’re ready now. Marry me, Ella. Because no matter where you go or what you do, I’ll love you every day for the rest of my life. Jack
~Lisa Kleypas
Love can come only with time and sentience.
We learn it as we learn language — and some never learn it well.
Love is like a tool, though it is not a tool;
something strange and wonderful to use,
difficult to master,
and mysterious in its provenance.
~Catherynne M Valente
To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there’s ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.
~Emily Dickinson
If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I’d answer meekness, hands down. You can be a superb communicator but still never have the humility to ask, ‘Is it I?’ Communication skills are no substitute for Christlike attributes.
~John Bytheway
I’m only a tool, beloved. Not your Savior
~Francine Rivers
There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.
~Iain Duncan Smith
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Womens, they ain’t like men. A woman ain’t gone beat you with a stick. Miss Hilly wouldn’t pull no pistol on me. Miss Leefolt wouldn’t come burn my house down. No, white womens like to keep they hands clean. They got a shiny little set of tools they use, sharp as witches’ fingernails, tidy and laid out neat, like the picks on a dentist tray. They gone take they time with em.
~Kathryn Stockett
My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent for cooking. I was always out in the garage with my dad. I have a tool belt. I’m a repair chick.
~Cheryl Ladd
It took a lot of women like that, a lot of women who said “I’m not going to do what you expect me to do, because you have no idea what I’m capable of. I’m going to get dirty and use tools and live the way I want” to move the world forward.
~Maureen Johnson
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.
~Helen Fisher
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Passion is what convinced armies that had no chance to win — it’s believing that something can happen. Reality is what you make it to be. And when you’re the only one who can see the way the future is going to be, you can be the tool that bends, rips, shapes and paints the future the way you want it to be. That’s true passion!
~Garth Brooks
I do believe that such a life can only be found by living one’s true passion. Without passion, an individual gets caught in the trap of making a living instead of designing a life. When we fall into the trap of getting up each day to reenact an “ordinary” existence, we find ourselves at a level that is merely one of survival.
~Tony Robbins
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I believe it is my duty to share the gifts I have learned. How dare I have the tools for finding serenity and not share them with the world?
~Gabrielle Bernstein
Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.
~Terence McKenna
But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.
~Rick Riordan
There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from.
~Catherynne M Valente
Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
~Charles Kingsley
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The greatest tool to eliminate the noise is meditation.
~Russell Simmons
Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.
~Biz Stone
Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.
~Craig Bruce
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Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor’s garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one.
~Dave Barry
Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.
~Author unknown
My wife’s idea of sexy is Norm Abram wearing nothing other than a tool belt and safety glasses.
~Richard Menzies
Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
~Ani DiFranco
The wordsmith cuts saws for a living.
~Terri Guillemets
The science fair has long been a favorite educational tool in the American school system, and for a good reason: Your teachers hate you.
~Dave Barry
A bad day woodworking is better than a good day twerking.
~Author unknown
I think objects made of wood by children, left to their own devices, if such there be, will assay ten percent wood, ninety percent nails.
~Robert Paul Smith
Well, you missed out on some important protocol, Ella. You can’t stand between a Texan and his power tools. We like them. Big ones that drain the national grid. We also like truck-stop breakfasts, large moving objects, Monday night football, and the missionary position. We don’t drink light beer, drive Smart cars, or admit to knowing the names of more than about five or six colors. And we don’t wax our chests, ever.
~Lisa Kleypas
The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
~Lana Turner
Father’s Day: When you get that lethal combination of alcohol and new power tools.
~David Letterman
For me, the scariest thing about a serial killer is that there’s somebody who lives next door to you, running power tools late into the night, and you don’t know he has a refrigerator full of penises.
~David Fincher
Humor is a marvelous communications tool, as Reagan has demonstrated so well. He has weathered many a storm that others might not have. With Reagan, people just say, ‘There he goes again.’ A sense of humor allows a president to back off a little from the tensions of the moment and take a calmer view of things.
~Robert Orben
Humor can be one of our best survival tools.
~Allen Klein
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Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world’s longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don’t use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.
~Dan Buettner
Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.
~Liberty Hyde Bailey
My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Toward seven o’clock every morning,
I leave my study and step
Out on the bright terrace;
the sun already burns resplendent
Between the shadows of the fig tree,
makes the low wall of coarse
Granite warm to the touch.
Here my tools lie ready and waiting,
Each one an intimate, an ally:
the round basket for weeds:
The zappetta, the small hoe with a short haft…
There’s a rake here as well, and at times a mattock and spade,
Or two watering cans filled with water warmed by the sun.
With my basket and small hoe in hand, facing the sun, I
Go out for my morning walk.
~Hermann Hesse
We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.
~Robert Frost
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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.
~Lewis H Lapham
Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel – only a means to an end.
~Henry Ford
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
~Ayn Rand
Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns — or dollars. Take your choice — there is no other.
~Ayn Rand
Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
~Frank Herbert
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Checklists turn out…to be among the basic tools of the quality and productivity revolution in aviation, engineering, construction – in virtually every field combining high risk and complexity. Checklists seem lowly and simplistic, but they help fill in for the gaps in our brains and between our brains.
~Atul Gawande
Meetings get a bad rap, and deservedly so — most are disorganized and distracted. But they can be a critical tool for getting your team on the same page.
~Justin Rosenstein
Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.
~Mark McCormack
People with leverage have dominance over people with less leverage. In other words, just as humans gained advantages over animals by creating leveraged tools, similarly, humans who use these tools of leverage have more power over humans that do not. Saying it more simply, ‘leverage is power’.
~Robert Kiyosaki
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We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.
~Scott Lynch
The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful too.
~Stephen King
Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.
~Janet Morris
The monopoly capitalists … weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The superstructure of society ordains the type of art in which the artist has to be educated. Rebels are subdued by its machinery and only rare talents may create their own work. The rest become shameless hacks or are crushed.
~Che Guevara
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
~George Carlin
Don’t trust children with edge tools. Don’t trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A worker may be the hammer’s master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
~Milan Kundera
I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
~Adam Savage
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer. Likewise, the bicycle is alive and well. It was invented in a world without automobiles, and for speed and range it was quickly surpassed by motorcycles and all kinds of powered scooters. But there is nothing quaint about bicycles. They outsell cars.
~James Gleick
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If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.
~Sholem Asch
when you feel like a nail everything looks like a hammer
~William Gaddis
If the only tool you have is a hammer, it’s hard to eat spaghetti.
~David Allen
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@Writers Platform
Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or handled with the rough tools of proof, is no longer sensibility at all. It has hardened into an idea.
~Susan Sontag
Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.
~Molly Haskell
Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.
~Julian Huxley
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I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all shout of creation. What do writers have in comparison? Only the flat paper, the clacketing of the typewriter or the scrape of a pen across a yellow page. And then, when the finished piece is presented, there is a small wonder on one hand, a manuscript smudged with erasures or crossed out lines on the other. The impact of the painting is immediate, the manuscript must unfold slowly through time.
~Jane Yolen
By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.
~Wallace Stegner
What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us. We live, true, we breathe, true; we walk, we go downstairs, we sit at a table in order to eat, we lie down on a bed on order to sleep. How? Where? When? Why? Describe your street. Describe another. Compare.
~Georges Perec
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry…. Both are very hard work. Writing something is almost as hard as making a table. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. Both are full of tricks and techniques. Basically very little magic and a lot of hard work…
~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws. The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.
~Ludwig Wittgenstein
The wider the author’s arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.
~Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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A goose quill is mightier than a lion’s paw.
~William Hardcastle Browne
Many wearing rapiers are afraid of goosequills.
~William Shakespeare
I had rather stand the Shock of a Basilisk, than the Fury of a merciless Pen.
~Thomas Browne
The dash of a Pen is more grievous than the counterbuff of a Lance.
~George Whetstone
The pen is mightier than the sword.
~Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The pen-holder is mightier than the pen.
~James Lendall Basford
The pen is mightier than the sword, and the typewriter is mightier than both.
~Evan Esar
The mike is mightier than the pen or the sword.
~Dick Gregory
Then, he has the tools of persuasion. His cameras and microphones are mightier than the pen.
~Dick Gregory
The heart is mightier than the pen.
~Claudia Mill
The pun is mightier than the sword.
~The Trick of Being Funny
The PENSION is mightier than the sword.
~Puck
The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.
~George D Prentice
Everybody is writing, writing, writing – worst of all, writing poetry. It’d be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers – every damned one of us – were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.
~Walt Whitman
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Prewritten Prompt: tool
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What is a workman without his tooles?
~Proverb
A bad workman blames his tools.
Daphne du Maurier
Good workmen never quarrel with their tools…
~Lord Byron
Excuses are tools of the incompetent
~Mike Tomlin
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The best carpenters make the fewest chips.
~English proverb
The best Carpenters make the fewest chips: but some there must be.
~Jeremy Taylor
Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert.
~Robert Brault
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The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.
~Plato
It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.
~Tom Clancy
By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and most of all, the quantum theory.
~Michio Kaku
#3 pencils and quadrille pads. (when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )
~Seymour Cray
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Tools get socially interesting after they’re no longer technologically interesting.
~Clay Shirky
The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story.
~Marco Tempest
Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
~Phyllis McGinley
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Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.
~Neville Brody
Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
~Clay Shirky
What an excellent tool the internet is for freaks.
~Steig Larsson
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Any tool can be used for good or bad. It’s really the ethics of the artist using it.
~John Knoll
The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place in society because society is what we’re watching, and dealing with.
~William Trevor
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The Exercise:
Opinion: The Tools I Use
Twice questioned about my extensive use of a thesaurus when I write, I feel the need to answer this time. For spelling and shades of meaning, I am often at the dictionary when I work. I use a thesaurus because the right word can make or break a good thought, make it resonate, somehow make it matter more, even memorable.
Rip saw or sandpaper? A carpenter might go with a lathe, a rasp or a chisel when carving his art out of marbled oak; he has a choice of tools. Muted melodies, muffled sounds, missed notes and tones? A mic and speakers are what’s needed to reach a sold-out house. No musician would limit herself to the acoustic hush of campfire songs. Doctors are not thought to be cheating with an x-ray, when a stethoscope might do.
Some tools rise from being merely-used to their place on the bench as the nearly-sacred. Certainly these are the secret to rounding out the curves in any craft. Dictionaries and a good thesaurus are my tools. There’s a rhyming app, too. As a poetaster and writer, I freely admit to an addiction to these tools in my search for the perfect words.
Picking one’s way thru these myriad resources, the choice of near-infinite options (your thoughts, their windings); this is a true quest and an odyssey, the authentic journey of an artist. It is an unmoored, unmapped voyage into uncertain endings. But once finished, having something final, a portion of oneself, an edit worthy a title, and having an offering to submit on the altar of art — well, then’s the moment, payday at last!
It is the false pride of a very small universe that wants to create without the benefit of tools. Besides the urgency of a need to create, and of bringing something new to life, a well-considered legacy is the common hope of ‘most any artist. A plea to the young writer: do not handicap yourself.
Do not deny your art the very best your time and talent have to offer. Your work lives on after you, long after your pride ceases to matter. Do not turn your back on the use of available tools. Do not refuse their help. Mortal pride counts for nothing in time’s judgement of your work. Your readers will only know your final edit. Do not cheat them.
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Quarrelsome
Lovers’ duel on display
Broken rules paved the way
Troubled fools on parade
One-time duet stunned, dismayed
Cruel words that disobeyed
Dual meanings were to blame
Broken hearts, all the same
Fuel the pain that lyrics claim
The course of love gone astray
The dress of love in disarray
Yet loving kindness won the day
Love’s forgiveness holding sway
Cherubic arsenal helped allay
Sworn-to-love words gone astray
Enter Cupid, tools on display
Precise-time bow, heart its prey
Well-aimed arrows bloom
To a heart-shaped bouquet
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Walled Street
Hurled rockets of hatred
Thrown rocks out of spite
Flicked pebbles of frustration
Spread grains of dislike
Parceled out love
In buckets or spoon
Return on investments
Guaranteed to balloon
Commercials of expression
Proven tools of the heart
Implements of the market
Finance deliveries of art
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What Lasts
When cities fail
And bridges fall
When trains derail
And culture crawls
When civil insurrections
Have tools for resurrection
Money from the sellers’ mart
The crown and crime of art
Past privileges of the citizen
Pride interred ghosts of men
Feeble-failed dirt sepulchres
That even bones don’t endure
Surrendered, rendered final
Yet their tools abide eternal
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breakthrough
foreign land
a language failure
a laziness of intent
the love of my own
perhaps a tool gone dull
the wall of age
against the distractions
eavesdropping on lives
living around
voices in rhythm
rising and falling
then
a day of discovery
the moment of magic
that a lack of language
became a music
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parking lot full up
bred tools herded and resting
new beasts of burden
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The difference between art and craft lies not in the tools you hold in your hands, but in the mental set that guides them. For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.
~David Bayles
Handle your tools without mittens.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
~Washington Irving
Silence & smile are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems & Silence is the way to avoid many problems.
~Iris Johansen
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…because it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and the more varnish you put on the more the grain will express itself.
~Charles Dickens
“What he has in addition is pure empathy and projection,” Dr. Bloom said. “He can assume your point of view, or mine — and maybe some other points of view that scare and sicken him. It’s an uncomfortable gift, Jack. Perception’s a tool that’s pointed on both ends.”
~Thomas Harris
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It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of which nature did not take much trouble, did not employ any fine tools such as files, gimlets, and so on, but simply hacked them out with round strokes: one chop—a nose appears; another chop—lips appear; eyes are scooped out with a big drill; and she lets it go into the world rough-hewn, saying: “ALIVE!
~Nikolai Gogol
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.
~Mary Quant
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I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam — I break in order to reveal.
~Stephen Jay Gould
Stone tools are fossilized human behavior.
~Louis Leakey
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Surely green branches thou mayst render straight;
Th’ attempt to straighten dry wood comes too late.
~Sadī, The Gulistān
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Split your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
~Old New England saying
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My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say “I’m sorry, but I’ve got to say hello to you,” and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, “Not for me, Bub. I don’t want anything to do with you.”
~John Mayer
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
~Steve Jobs
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Woodworking matters. It’s more than a pastime or hobby — being a woodworker means that you know the satisfaction and pride that comes from using your hands and mind to build beautiful, functional objects, and that you’re as interested in the process as the outcome. Amid the speed and chaos of the modern world, woodworking gives us a place where we can slow down, pay attention, and take the time to do things right.
~Aimee Ontario Fraser
Woodworking minus patience equals firewood.
~Author unknown
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The most important tool of the theoretical physicist is his wastebasket.
~Albert Einstein
An editor is a man to whom the wastebasket is mightier than the pen.
~Evan Esar
An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
~Frank Lloyd Wright
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Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.
~Alan Chadwick
There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.
~Gertrude Jekyll
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Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.
~Haruki Murakami
Putty and paint will fix what ain’t.
~Handyman saying
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Giving great service requires the right people and the right service tools.
~Ron Kaufman
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
~Joseph Conrad
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Tools have their own integrity.
~Vita Sackville-West
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
~Zig Ziglar
No amount of tools can help a bad product. You have to remain genuine in your product development innovation and quality.
~Kara Swisher
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We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
~John F Kennedy
Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.
~Edward de Bono
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
~Henry Ward Beecher
Everyone’s doing the best they can with the tools they were given.
~Jaime Murray
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Feeblest of bipeds!… Nevertheless he can use Tools, can devise Tools: with these the granite mountain melts into light dust before him; he kneads glowing iron, as if it were soft paste; seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without Tools; without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.
~Thomas Carlyle
You are equipped with strong bodies and educated minds. Add to these an unshakable faith in a divine providence and you have the tools by which you may build a successful life. Make each day your masterpiece and live so nobly that you may witness honestly each day: Whatever came to your hands this day, you did it to the best of your ability.
~Harold B Lee
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