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“Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.”

Persons Law Knowing Tools Accounts Property Lawyer Expensive Remarkable Shy Application Uncertain Right Person Shaving Meddling

Book:The Old Curiosity Shop ... With a Frontispiece. From a Painting by Geo. Cattermole, Etc

Source: The Old Curiosity Shop ... With a Frontispiece. From a Painting by Geo. Cattermole, Etc

“Enthusiasm for the universe, in knowing as well as in creating, also answers the question of doubt and meaninglessness. Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge. And meaninglessness is no threat so long as enthusiasm for the universe and for man as its center is alive.”

Men Wells Long Universe Answers Knowing Doubt Alive Creating Tools Threat Enthusiasm Meaninglessness

Book:The Courage To Be

Source: The Courage To Be

“Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral.”

Thinking Way Use Mistake Knowing Please Tools Electricity Often Is

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.”

Use Jobs Knowing Tools Crafts Damage

Author:Douglas Adams

“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 playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.”

Knows Men Firsts Knowing Weapons Tools Shelter Gratification Armament

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Knowing your history can give you the tools to shape your future.”

Giving Knowing Shapes Tools Our Future Your Future

Book:No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power

Source: No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power

“When I was in architecture school, rather than giving us drafting boards and t-squares and lead pencils and stuff they gave us all the same tools that places like Digital Domain and ILM used to make features films or special effects. They gave us all these digital tools like Alias and Mya and Soft Image and all these kind of high-end computers, so I came out of architecture school knowing how to use all that stuff. And I started making short films at night.”

“I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood.”

Able Knowing Tools Mood Pace Despise Delay Pointless Wrecks

Author:Adam Savage

“Not being afraid to make changes is a valuable tool - knowing you can change back.”

Knowing Tools Valuable Making Changes Being Afraid

Author:Tori Amos

“One of the most important analytic tools when assessing an investment is an intellectually advantaged disparate view. This includes knowing more and perceiving the situation better than others do. It is also critical to have a keen understanding of what the market expectations for any investment truly are. Thus, the process by which a disparate perception, when correct, becomes consensus should lead to meaningful profit. Understanding market expectation is at least as important as, and often different from fundamental knowledge.”