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“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

“Mobile communications have two functions: as a safety net, and as a marketing tool. I think it'd be foolish to not carry one for safety sake. Using one for marketing is an optional activity, and I've generally stayed away from extensively using one for this purpose because it's a distraction.”

Thinking Two Purpose Communication Activity Tools Function Safety Sake Marketing Foolish Distraction Mobile Optional Safety Net

Author:Andrew Skurka

“I think that actresses can be in all different shapes and sizes, but it is a profession, and as an actor, your body is one of your big tools. So you've got to be fit in a sense.”

Thinking Different Body Bigs Actors Fit Shapes Tools Size Actresses Profession Your Body Different Shapes And Sizes

Author:Rebel Wilson

“Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.”

People Mean Persons Doe Ends Seems Materials Gains Tools Machines Dry Aviation Anxious Airplane Harvest Predictions Advancement Worth Living Technicians

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“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.”

Doe Has Beens Home Purpose Forget Poet Higher Tools Machines Complexes Flight Faster Excitement Aviation Toys Sole Predictions Gardener Barbarians Unnoticed Navigators New Toys

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man's diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books... If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.”

Ifs Men Inspirational Believe Book Happens Motivational I Believe Impossible Tools Disappear Diverse

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“I think comedy is a really, really good tool for trying to say something.”

Thinking Trying Comedy Tools

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“My sense of humor was a tool for me getting past my mother and father separating, my older brother having cerebral palsy, and the bullies in the schoolyard. I had to make them laugh to keep them off my ass. I brought that to my professional career.”

Past Mother Father Careers Laughing Brother Tools Ass Sense Of Humor Bully Mother And Father Separating Cerebral Older Brother Professional Career Cerebral Palsy

Author:Tracy Morgan

“I think testing films are a great tool. And I think showing them to people that you value their opinion is important, but once you give over to what reviewers think, that's tricky. You don't know what their agenda is; it's so subjective. You have got to make sure you are asking someone's opinion who you know.”

People Thinking Knows Giving Important Film Values Opinion Tools Asking Agendas Testing Subjective Tricky Reviewers Who You Know

Author:Bradley Cooper

“I'm attracted to the garden, without a doubt, but I always try and image the wolf that's there, too. And that wolf would be us. It's not that we're malevolent or evil - we're marvelous, fantastic, tool-bearing beings and capable of so much - but there are so many of us, and we don't tend to take responsibility for what we do.”

Trying Would Be Evil Responsibility Doubt Capable Garden Tools Fantastic Marvelous Taking Responsibility

Author:Michael Light

“As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to be the tool of the director.”

Mean Film Particular Directors Elements Tools

Author:Jack Nicholson

“I never go online on my iPhone. Sometimes I'm tempted but I remind myself and the kids - it's a tool. Use it as a tool. You're not the tool. My iPhone, 85% of the time I'm writing down ideas.”

Writing Ideas Sometimes Use Kids Tools Online Tempted Iphone

Author:Matthew McConaughey

“You can't always get out on the mountain, so I'll put rubber on the end of my ice tools and climb the tread wall, a rotating rock wall I have in my backyard.”

Ends Rocks Wall Mountain Tools Ice Climbs Backyards Rubber Rotating

Author:Erik Weihenmayer

“If a film is good, and I'm sort of able to sit there and absorb myself within that world. And get lost. That is a pretty powerful tool. And there's not many paintings out there, that make me want to stare at it for hours at a time, and wonder where I am!”

Ifs World Want Able Film Lost Hours Powerful Wonder Painting Tools Staring

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“As an actor, I think every moment in your life is giving you a new set of tools. You’re constantly absorbing new information that you can put back onto the screen.”

Thinking Giving Moments Life Is Actors Information Tools Screens Absorbing New Information

Author:Charlie Day

“Authentic power is a new potential of this expanded perceptual system that we are all being given as a gift. As you begin to create authentic power with tools such as emotional awareness, responsible choice and intuition, you begin to draw to yourself others who are doing the same thing.”

Choices Given Awareness Emotional Draws Tools Responsible Intuition

Author:Gary Zukav

“Your personality, your body, you intuitional structure. These are all tools; energy tools of the soul. Your soul existed before your personality came into being, it will exist after your personality came into being.”

Soul Body Energy Personality Tools Structure Your Body Your Soul

Author:Gary Zukav

“The soul is that part of us that is immortal. It existed before the personality was born and it will exist after the personality is gone. The personality is an energy tool of the soul that is temporary. Through it we learn in this domain of the five senses. We learn through what we create and the impact that it has on us. This process is becoming conscious.”

Soul Energy Process Born Gone Five Personality Becoming Conscious Tools Impact Senses Immortal Temporary Domain Five Senses

Author:Gary Zukav

“The mind is a powerful tool.”

Mind Powerful Tools

Author:Charles Tillman

“I use drugs to work. I never use them to escape or for pleasure. When you turn to drugs, all you're doing is turning inside, anyway. I only use drugs for construction. It's like one of my architectural tools.”

Use Turns Pleasure Drug Tools Construction

Author:Patti Smith

“The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done.”

World Years Firsts Done Bigs Born Disease Areas Program Tools Decades Get It Done Tropical Malaria

Author:Bill Gates

“It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.”

Humans Hard Used Study Disease Tools Plant Incredibles Valuable

Author:Bill Gates

“Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.”

Long Doe Science Technology Worry Theory Tools Statistics Machinery

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy and pleasurable to be such, because when one drags another in his fall, the descent is easy.”

Men Ends Fall Found Easy Mankind Tools Drag Descent

Book:The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

Source: The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings

“God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more.”

Needs Helping Use Seems Suffering Faith Religious Tools Bigger

Book:When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty

Source: When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty

“I think there are going to be some social changes that take place due to the Internet, and the availability of the tools to more and more people. I think you are going to find a lot of people re-cutting movies and changing them, making them into their own movies.”

People Thinking Social Cutting Internet Tools Dues Social Change Availability

Author:George Lucas

“I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.”

Art Pleasure Listening Tools Instruments Sheer

Author:Lauryn Hill

“Lenin in 1921 observed very presciently that motion pictures were the most powerful tool ever invented to shape the way we thought. He was right. Political films can be successful.”

Way Film Political Powerful Successful Shapes Tools Being Successful Most Powerful Motion Pictures

Author:Charlton Heston

“My degree was in sculpture. I always think that drawing is a sculptural process. I always feel like I'm carving the image out rather than painting the image. I'm carving it out with erasers and tools like that. I've always had this fondness for sculpture.”

Thinking Feels Process Painting Degrees Tools Drawing Sculpture Fondness Carving Erasers

Author:Robert Longo

“I want to bring theatre to a new generation, using the tools available to us, including taking it out to them on film and with new technology, but that is just so they can discover theatre. I want them to come in and sit in a theatre. This is the way to plant seeds.”

Way Want Film Technology Generations Tools Plant Including Available Seeds Theatre New Technology New Generation

Author:Kevin Spacey

“I think social media really is a great tool. It fascinates me when I tweet something and right away you get a response almost immediately.”

Thinking Social Media Tools Response Social Media Tweet

Author:Mario Andretti

“Everything you use in a modern life style has to be made using a tool of some sort.”

Made Use Modern Style Tools Modern Life Life Style

Author:Paul Harvey

“The breath is seen to be the key between the emotional state, the mental state and physical state. It is perhaps the most important tool, and it's one whose importance is underestimated in the West.”

Important States Emotional Keys Tools Importance Breaths West Underestimated

Author:Paul Harvey

“For me the breath really is the tool which allows you to understand what's happening on the mental level and what's happening on the emotional level, and it also allows you to measure what's happening on a physical level.”

Levels Emotional Happenings Tools Breaths

Author:Paul Harvey

“The ego is a tool. You don't separate it. It's a tool for the spirit.”

Spirit Ego Tools

Author:Ram Dass

“I think my favorite medium is music, with my main tools being my voice and a guitar. But I do find every other medium extremely fulfilling and useful in helping everything I do. Sometimes I need to make a song just for a comic. All of the art and mediums are connected for me.”

Thinking Needs Art Sometimes Helping Song Voice Tools Guitar My Favorite Connected Mediums Comic Fulfilling

Author:Gerard Way

“I actually have a great deal of respect for antidepressants; I think they can be enormously mighty tools toward recovery.”

Thinking Deals Tools Recovery Antidepressants

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.”

Should Trying Tools Photographer Truthful

Author:Petra Collins

“Take it slowly. The deepest resentments are wrapped up in a lot of hurt and pain. We think we're protecting ourselves by not forgiving. Acknowledge that and go easy on yourself. Forgiveness means that you've decided not to let it keep festering inside even if it only comes up once in awhile. Forgiveness is a powerful yet challenging tool that will support and honor you, even in the most extreme circumstances.”

“The checklist is one of the most high powered productivity tool ever discovered.”

Tools Productivity Checklists

Author:Brian Tracy

“The tools of science and technology amplified the effects of the madness of the egoic mind. So the survival of the planet began to be threatened, and with it the survival of humanity.”

Mind Humanity Technology Effects Planets Survival Tools Madness Threatened Science And Technology

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness. Thinking is potentially a powerful tool, but it has taken us over, and a lot of it is dysfunctional and negative.”

Thinking Humans Stills States Process Powerful Numbers Consciousness Taken Negative Tools Awakening Identification States Of Consciousness

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.”

Knows Needs Giving Trying Persons Loses Lines Attention Reader Six Research Tools Journalism Journalist Interviews

Author:Isabel Allende

“It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.”

World Computer Tools Complexes Everyday Everyday Life Unheard

Author:Bill Gates

“The studio is my main compositional tool. And I used to be horrible in the studio. I didn't know any kind of technical stuff. But when you have something in your head, you've gotta figure out a way of executing it.”

Knows Way Kind Used Stuff Figures Tools Studios Horrible Used To Be Executing

Author:Mike Patton

“There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds. But the ability to play non-zero-sum games was another watershed.”

People Thinking Humans Play Use Games Language Ability Evolution Couple Comfortable Tools Zero Human Evolution Zero Sum Game Watersheds

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“Education is one of the most important tools that you can give somebody.”

Giving Important Tools

Author:Tyler Hilton

“I don't know how to make magic. For most songwriter's that has only happened once or twice, and I don't know how to re-create that. I know that there are some tricks and tools, but the magic is the amazing part.”

Knows Know How Happened Magic Tools Tricks Songwriters

Author:Tyler Hilton

“For a perfect holiday I need my iPhone and my writing tools. I write all my books by hand so black felt pens and yellow legal pads are a must. And my eyebrow pencil. I'm very low-maintenance.”

Needs Writing Book Hands Felt Black Perfect Lows Tools Holiday Pens Yellow Pencils Eyebrows Maintenance Iphone Pads

Author:Jackie Collins

“Create tools that enable people to make decisions at the same level, ideally, of fidelity that that you would make them yourself.”

People Decision Levels Tools Fidelity

Author:Keith Rabois

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