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“Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.”

Wells Kind Joy Garden Tools Chosen

Book:Gardener's handbook, successor to The gardener: brief indications for the growing of common flowers, vegetables and fruits in the garden and about the home

Source: Gardener's handbook, successor to The gardener: brief indications for the growing of common flowers, vegetables and fruits in the garden and about the home

“A colorful handle on a tool does nothing for me. Once it drops into that jungle out there, unless it's absolutely huge, it's gone until fall.”

Doe Fall Gone Huge Tools Handle Jungle Colorful

Author:Janet Macunovich

“A digging fork is a stout, short-handled tool with four flat tines about a foot long.... for weeding I use it delicately to nudge the soil loose from roots without breaking them.”

Long Use Four Feet Tools Roots Soil Flats Weed Digging Forks Nudge Stout

Author:Sara Bonnett Stein

“There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well.”

Wells Doe Made Tools Clean Satisfaction

Book:The gardener: a book of brief directions for the growing of the common fruits, vegetables and flowers in the garden and about the house

Source: The gardener: a book of brief directions for the growing of the common fruits, vegetables and flowers in the garden and about the house

“The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.”

States Church Tools Critics Guides

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“As proof of this statement, consider this question: Have the people ever been known to rise against the Court of Appeals, or mob a Justice of the Peace, in order to get higher wages, free credit, tools of production, favorable tariffs, or government-created jobs? Everyone knows perfectly well that such matters are not within the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals or a Justice of the Peace. And if government were limited to its proper functions, everyone would soon learn that these matters are not within the jurisdiction of the law itself.”

“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.”

Littles Jobs Language Can Do Pieces Cutting Bears Tools Fishes Woods Knives Leather Neat Really Nice Rubies Ponies Toolbox Toothpicks Sharp Knives Javascript

Author:Nick Morgan

“Your work is a very sacred matter. God delights in it, and through it, He wants to best His blessings on you. This praise of work should be inscribed on all tools, on the forehead and the faces that sweat from toiling.”

Want Should Matter Faces Blessing Tools Praise Sacred Delight Sweat Foreheads Toiling

Author:Martin Luther

“We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.”

People Book Tools

Author:John Ortberg

“The Internet is a very powerful tool, but right now it's being handled by a lot of fools. And I think us together, Marilyn Manson as a whole, what we all stand for, should be the biggest spider on the web. I think that it will become our web. Not something that uses us, but something that we will control”

Thinking Should Whole Use Together Powerful Fool Internet Right Now Tools Spiders Very Powerful Manson

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end.”

Author:Stewart Brand

“It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.”

Stills Tools Shame Smell Owners Mud Our Words Misused

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Coercion is as much the tool of the welfare state as it is of communism. The programs and edicts of both are backed by the police force. All of us know this to be true under communism, but it is equally true under our own brand of welfare statism.”

Knows States Force Program Tools Police Being True Brands Communism Welfare Coercion Welfare State Police Force

Author:Leonard Read

“Private enterprise is not as spectacular nor as easy to see as the socialist way of temporarily diffusing poverty by eating up the seed corn - the tools - which will increase poverty in the long run.”

Way Long Running Easy Poverty Eating Tools Increase Seeds Enterprise Long Runs Socialist Corn Spectacular Private Enterprise

Author:Raymond C. Hoiles

“"Cap and trade" is just about the most effective tool for controlling most economic activity short of openly declaring ourselves a communist nation and it's a radical environmentalist's dream come true.”

Dream Nations Economic Activity Tools Trade Radical Communist Dreams Come True Caps Environmentalist Declaring

Book:American Contempt for Liberty

Source: American Contempt for Liberty

“An excuse is the tool our weak self uses to prevent our strongest self from reaching greatness.”

Self Use Greatness Tools Weak Excuse Reaching Strongest

Author:Robin Sharma

“Best productivity tool ever invented? Easy...the word "no".”

Easy Tools Productivity

Author:Robin Sharma

“Till you reach the state of jnana and thus wake out of maya you must do social service by relieving suffering whenever you see it. But even then you must do it without ahankara, i.e., without the sense of 'I am the doer', but with the feeling 'I am the Lord's tool'.”

States Feelings Suffering Social Lord Tools Doers Social Service

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“...I think there's only one [thing] that anybody teaches, and this is character. And I think that whether you are teaching history, math, or biology, or music, what you are really doing is, you are helping to shape the character of that person who is your student... Music is such a wonderful teaching tool, because while you are developing musical skills, that student can learn a lot about discipline [and] cooperation.”

Thinking Persons Character Helping Teach Wonderful One Thing Teaching Students Discipline Shapes Skills Music Is Tools Musical Math Developing Biology Cooperation Teaching History

Author:Rich Mullins

“Time management is only a set of skills and tools to help us more efficiently control the eventsour our lives.”

Helping Our Lives Skills Tools Management Time Management

Author:Hyrum W. Smith

“As time progressed, my songwriting developed out of my bass, because that's all I could do. I decided to take it as far as it could go and to use my skill as a tool.”

Use Skills Tools Decided Songwriting Bass

Author:Stephen Bruner

“You hear people say that there's too much CG in movies today, but CG is what allows me to take a green-painted wall in a studio and make it disappear, and then put 100 miles of landscape in. CG, in the right hands, can be a marvelous tool.”

People Hands Today Too Much Wall Tools Green Studios Disappear Miles Landscape Marvelous

Author:David Twohy

“The nature of evil, the nature of it, it exists. It exists and I think within us we have the tools. If we have the will, we can combat it. I think the power is within us and it lies in our own conceptualization of God and positivity and compassion and love.”

Ifs Thinking Lying Evil Compassion Tools And Love Positivity Combat Conceptualization Nature Of Evil

Author:Vera Farmiga

“When you dance intensely, you are really aware of your physicality, and that's always great to have as a tool, when you're an actress.”

Tools Actresses Physicality

Author:Mia Wasikowska

“A director can come from anywhere, but having a story background, if you have nothing else, is probably a good thing to have because it's really the one tool you need.”

Ifs Needs Stories Directors Tools Good Things Backgrounds

Author:Dan Scanlon

“When you see somebody actually be able to channel that into an accessible, beautiful tool, you start to see the craftsman behind it.”

Able Beautiful Behinds Tools Craftsman

Author:David Gordon Green

“Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an act of charity. And further, I believe it to be - as a type - the greatest economic charity of all.”

Believe Facts Seems I Believe Views Support Economic Type Amount Tools Logic Charity Productions Saving Savings Acts Of Charity

Author:F. A. Harper

“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.”

Helping Seems Turns Brain Quality Risk Fields Revolution Tools Productivity Complexity Aviation Gaps Construction Engineering Combining High Risk Checklists

Author:Atul Gawande

“The nazis slaughtered millions because they dehumanized their victims... but when it comes to dehumanizing victims the most useful and most widely used tool throughout history is, of course, religion.”

Used Courses Millions Tools Victim Nazi

Author:David Alan Harvey

“The blog is certainly another tool for writers out there to break their way in. But being a blogger does not make you a great writer.”

Way Doe Break Tools Blogs Great Writers Bloggers

Author:Julie Powell

“With Lean Six Sigma, the tools are the easy part, changing organizational culture is the hard part.”

Hard Culture Easy Six Tools Organizational

Author:John Novak

“God warned Israel, "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it" (Ex. 20:25). To pollute something is to make it ordinary. God insists that any approach crafted by human ingenuity will produce a worship system just like all the pagan systems in the world. In other words, it will be common or profane - just like everyone else's paganism.”

Ifs World Humans Common Produce Approach Worship Ordinary Tools Stones Israel Lifts Exes Altars Paganism Pagan Ingenuity Profane

Author:Max Anders

“You have all the tools right now to make this day, this moment, happy. The best of these tools is love.”

Moments Right Now Tools This Day

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“Things happen in baseball, even if, in theory, it's something you don't do. Stats are a tool, but it doesn't mean that's how a game is being played at that moment. There's more than one way to win a game, or have a winning team.”

Ifs Way Mean Moments Happens Games Winning Team Theory Tools Baseball Things Happen One Way That Moment Being Played Winning Team

Author:Jon Miller

“Technique itself springs from play, because we can acquire technique only by the practice of practice, by persistently experimenting and playing with our tools and testing their limits and resistances.”

Play Practice Limits Spring Tools Technique Resistance Acquire Testing

Book:Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

“The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used their instruments as tools for detailed communication.”

Littles Reason Facts Used Artist Voice Communication Goes On Tools Instruments Singers Great Art Great Artist

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“Reason is a tool to help us better understand and defend our faith; as Anselm put it, ours is a faith that seeks understanding.”

Reason Helping Understanding Tools

Author:William Lane Craig

“If the technology hadn't changed, they [newspapers] would still be great businesses. Network TV [in its heyday], anyone could run and do well. If Tom Murphy as running it, you'd do very well, but even your idiot nephew could do well. Fortunately, carbide cutting tools [such as those made by Iscar] don't have these types of substitutes.”

Ifs Wells Made Stills Running Technology Cutting Changed Tvs Type Tools Newspapers Idiot Substitutes Toms Murphy Nephew Great Business Heyday

Author:Charlie Munger

“The ethical rule is from Samuel Johnson who believed that maintenance of easily removable ignorance by a responsible office holder was treacherous malfeasance in meeting moral obligation. The prudential rule is that underlying the old Warner & Swasey advertisement for machine tools: "The man who needs a new machine tool, and hasn't bought it, is already paying for it". The Warner & Swasey rule also applies, I believe, to thinking tools. If you don't have the right thinking tools, you, and the people you seek to help, are already suffering from your easily removable ignorance.”

“The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.”

Tools Immense Inspection

Author:Terence McKenna

“And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.”

World Hands Conditions Tools Posts Medieval

Author:Terence McKenna

“Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social systems have created over the past thousands of years.”

Years Past Social Differences Levels Tools Various Our Society Over The Past Social Systems

Book:Selected speeches and writings

Source: Selected speeches and writings

“A moral principle is not a command to act or to forbear acting in a given way: it is a tool for analyzing a special situation, the right or wrong being determined by the situation in its entirety, not by the rule as such.”

Way Given Acting Situation Moral Principles Special Tools Determined Command Analyzing Moral Principles Entirety

Book:Ethics: Top American Authors

Source: Ethics: Top American Authors

“When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness - and one's mind becomes an organ one cannot trust any longer. It becomes what the mystics claim it to be: a tool of distortion.”

Mind Reason Reality Turns Consciousness Tools Claims Rejects Organs Distortion Absolutism

Book:The Virtue of Selfishness

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“Well over half of the time you spend working on a project (on the order of 70 percent) is spent thinking, and no tool, no matter how advanced, can think for you. Consequently, even if a tool did everything except the thinking for you - if it wrote 100 percent of the code, wrote 100 percent of the documentation, did 100 percent of the testing, burned the CD-ROMs, put them in boxes, and mailed them to your customers - the best you could hope for would be a 30 percent improvement in productivity. In order to do better than that, you have to change the way you think.”

Ifs Thinking Way Wells Matter Would Be Order Half Projects Percent Tools Boxes Customers Productivity Improvement Code Burned Testing Cds Documentation

Author:Fred Brooks

“Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.”

Shapes Tools Shifting Shamanism Phenomenology

Author:Terence McKenna

“We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition of the power of the psychedelic experience. The psychedelic experience is the birth right of every human being on the planet. It is as much a basic part of each and every one of us as our sexuality, our national identity, our consciousness of self. And any society which attempts to hold back or impede this dimension of self-expression, when the history of that society is written, it will be called barbarous.”

“I think the cybernetic matrix is a tremendous tool for feminizing, and radicalizing, and psychedelicizing the social matrix. I see computers as entirely feminine.”

Thinking Social Computer Tools Feminine

Author:Terence McKenna

“Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.”

Made Real Hands Choices Tools Psychedelic

Author:Terence McKenna

“A fool with a tool still remains a fool.”

Stills Fool Tools Remains

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller