“Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool of the Democrat Party. I'm proud to say that they are my enemy. They are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans.” Has BeensIndividualPartyEnemyGroupsProudToolsDemocratSocialistEnvironmentalist Author:Don Young
“Some of the power has shifted from companies to people. Using social media tools (blogs, wikis, tagging, etc.) more individuals are creating semi-spontaneous 'groundswells' of opinions to which companies and other institutions are realizing they must respond. From marketing to consumers organizations are being pulled into engaging with individuals.” PeopleIndividualSocialRealizingCompanyOpinionMediaCreatingToolsOrganizationInstitutionsMarketingSocial MediaConsumersEtcSpontaneousEngagingConnectingBlogsWikis Author:Charlene Li
“Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.” PeopleSelfIndividualGroupsBuildingEmpathyToolsFunctionObsessedAllowingSelf Obsessed Book:The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“Unfortunately, throughout the housing crisis we've seen innocent homeowners who have been victims of shady mortgage lenders and unscrupulous individuals who have used a down market to line their own pockets at the expense of others. This bill is designed to send a message by revising our laws to ensure criminals are brought to justice and that law enforcement has the tools to uncover these fraudulent schemes and go after the bad actors. Criminals should be put on notice that ripping off homeowners and taxpayers won't be tolerated.” ShouldHas BeensLawUsedActorsIndividualLinesJusticeMessagesToolsCrisisVictimBillsCriminalsInnocentPocketsExpensesSchemesLaw EnforcementEnforcementHousingTaxpayersMortgageShadyRevisingLendersHomeownersHousing Crisis Author:Chuck Grassley
“The use of online assessment tools is giving teachers a more fine-grained understanding of individual students' skills, and assisting them to determine the necessary next steps to enable them to achieve their own learning goals. We are seeing more effective differentiation in classrooms as a result.” GivingUseNextIndividualUnderstandingGoalResultsStepsTeacherSeeingAchieveStudentsFineSkillsToolsDetermineOnlineClassroomAssessmentNext StepsDifferentiationAssisting Author:Susan Mann
“In a sense technology is a tool of sort of individual choice, individual creativity, individual empowerment, individual access. My kids will never understand that it used to be kind of hard to access and find things, and know what the world knows and see what the world sees. Yet it becomes easier and easier every day.” KnowsWorldKindHardKidsUsedChoicesIndividualCreativityTechnologyEasierEmpowermentToolsAccessUsed To BeBe KindIndividual Choice Author:Steve Ballmer
“But the individual was not a tool for something. He was the maker of tools. He was the one who must build. Even for the best purpose it is criminal to turn an individual into simply a means for some ultimate end. A society in which the dignity of the individual is destroyed cannot hope to be a decent society.” MeanEndsPurposeTurnsIndividualSocietyToolsDignityUltimateCriminalsDestroyedDecentMakers Book:A land of our own: an oral autobiography Source: A land of our own: an oral autobiography
“The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.” HumansUseIndividualToolsHuman LifeBeesColonyHives Author:Clay Shirky