“Even in some of our vaccine areas, like an AIDS vaccine, things have taken longer than we expected, but we have the pipeline of tools. The biological information that we have that gives us insights is fantastic.” GivingTakenInformationAreasToolsInsightExpectedAidsFantasticVaccinesPipeline Author:Bill Gates
“Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's, say, 18 or 19 years old.” YearsFirstsUseBirthToolsDelayControversialContraception Author:Bill Gates
“If somebody is considering being willing to go out and work in the field in global health, those are a particular class of heroes because it's hard to work in those places. Our foundation gets so many of our learnings from people who've been out there and seen, "this tool is not going to work there, there's more of a problem here than you know." You should really get involved in that.” PeopleIfsKnowsShouldHardProblemClassFieldsParticularWillingHeroInvolvedToolsFoundationConsideringGoing To WorkGet InvolvedGlobal Health Author:Bill Gates
“CP is a struggle, but it's also been quite the tool for me to find success and deliver a message. It's something about me that's unique, so it'll open a few doors as well as keep a few closed. If you have the other tools that you develop as an individual, talents, things like that, you can harness this to do positive things in the world.” IfsWorldWellsIndividualStruggleDoorsTalentMessagesUniqueToolsHarnessPositive ThingsIndividual Talent Author:Zach Anner
“I don't know how you feel, but I feel like writing, clarity of thought, and truth have been validated because we see what happens when we get lax in those areas. I'm excited by the idea that writers like us can actually reach out and try to understand and prod and agitate the people who are in support of Trump because we have the tools to do it. We're language people and we're idea people.” PeopleKnowsFeelsWritingTryingHas BeensIdeasHappensLanguageSupportKnow HowTrumpAreasToolsExcitedClarityReach OutHow You FeelAgitateLaxClarity Of Thought Author:George Saunders
“The Bible is the best and most important tool in discerning direction from God.” ImportantToolsDiscerning Author:Craig Groeschel
“It is in the best interests of civilization and our economy and our nation to understand what objective truths are as revealed by the methods and tools of science.” NationsInterestEconomyCivilizationToolsMethodObjectivesObjective Truth Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“We know Manny [Pacquiao] is a living legend and a hall of fame for sure. He's one of the greatest fighters that has ever lived. For me, I have to go out there and be myself. I have the talent and the tools to win this fight - I just have to go out there and perform.” KnowsFightingWinningTalentFameToolsFighterHallsLegendsHall Of FamePacquiaoLiving Legends Author:Chris Algieri
“Steve Jobs was one of the first people to understand that the computer wasn't just a tool, but that it could be an extension of ourselves, and he positioned Apple that way. The iPod was this revolutionary device with the idea of 1,000 songs in your pocket, and then that machine represents who you are.” PeopleWayFirstsIdeasJobsSongComputerToolsMachinesWho You AreRevolutionaryApplesPocketsDevicesExtensionsIpods Author:Alex Gibney
“It's a weird experience when you're just trying to talk openly about how you think psychedelic drugs and marijuana are beneficial, or a lot of different drugs, especially plant-based ones, can be beneficial. Especially those ones that have some connection to organic life, I feel like you can learn something from them, from mushrooms, from peyote, from marijuana. They can be used as a tool.” ThinkingFeelsTryingDifferentUsedLike YouDrugToolsConnectionsPlantMarijuanaBeneficialPsychedelicMushroomsPsychedelic DrugsOrganic LifePeyote Author:Joe Rogan
“Now 3D is no longer a fad but I don't get all crazy about it and say that everything has got to be in 3D. It is a nice tool, like color or sound or whatever. I was quite intrigued and I learned, 3D opened up a lot of questions about how to use it. I think it is great. It's like if a movie needs to be in black and white then that's how I will shoot it. I see color as just another character or black and white as a character.” IfsThinkingNeedsCharacterUseSoundBlackWhiteNiceCrazyColorToolsBlack And WhiteIntriguedFads Author:Tim Burton
“I use music as a tool for my own personal sanity, one might say. After a long day or something, I can always come home and sit down and play a song, or write a song, just relax and kind of space out with my guitar.” WritingKindLongI CanPlayUseHomeMightSongMy OwnSpaceToolsDown AndGuitarRelaxComing HomeSanityLong Day Author:Michael Graziadei
“Once people see that you improve you life if you are educated, then education becomes a valuable tool and people want it.” PeopleIfsWantToolsValuableEducated Author:Wangari Maathai
“I think any comic book - or really, any book that you can read - in a sense is an educational tool in that it helps literacy. The more you read, the better you get at it. It almost doesn't matter what you read, the important thing is for young people to become readers.” PeopleThinkingImportantBookMatterHelpingYoungReaderToolsImportant ThingsEducationalComicComic BookLiteracy Author:Stan Lee
“If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger we will become the tool of our tools. We think of ourselves as Google's customers, but really we're its products.” IfsThinkingDangerProductsToolsCustomersGoogle Author:Rebecca Goldstein
“We can't automatically think about young women in makeup negatively. Sometimes a woman engages in these new forces and energies of beauty coming into her world. They can become tools. She's trying to express her femininity outwardly. I'm still learning too.” ThinkingWorldTryingStillsSometimesYoungEnergyForceToolsMakeupYoung WomenFemininityForce And Energy Author:Nelly Furtado
“I've travelled extensively in the last 16 years - to slums in Bangladesh, to townships in South Africa, to all kinds of places in India, etc. When I would go and talk to villagers about something like vaccines, if I stayed long enough, the women would bring the conversation around and say: "What about this family planning tool? We can't keep having the number of children we're having."” IfsYearsKindChildrenLongEnoughLastsNumbersConversationToolsIndiaSouthPlanningAll KindsEtcSouth AfricaVaccinesSlumsBangladeshFamily Planning Author:Melinda Gates
“I think that [Obama] sees the military actually as something that is more dangerous to the world. I think that he looks at the United States military and sees it as a threatening application around the world than actually as a useful tool.” ThinkingWorldLooksStatesUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryDangerousToolsAround The WorldApplicationThreateningUnited States Military Author:Michael T. Flynn
“The Russians are using the tools at their disposal to weaken Western solidarity, to create doubt, to support nationalist parties, just as the old Soviets supported leftist parties. We need a united Western response to this multi-pronged threat.” NeedsUnitedPartySupportDoubtToolsThreatResponseWesternSolidarityLeftists Author:Daniel Fried
“Every government has signed up to a voluntary legal commitment under at least one of the international covenants and conventions based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But who is holding them to account? Our mission is to make it known that these conventions are good tools for civil society to hold their local authority, their government and businesses accountable.” HumansGovernmentKnownRightsAuthorityCommitmentToolsUniversalAccountsInternationalHuman RightsMissionsLocalsConventionsDeclarationCovenantCivil SocietyDeclaration Of Human RightsGovernment And Business Author:Mary Robinson
“People who've written about Abraham Lincoln's writing emphasize how logical he was. His writing was a syllogistic tool. He would say, if A, then B, and he would reason through it. His late writing especially is so tight and so beautifully reasoned.” PeopleIfsWritingReasonWrittenLateToolsLogicalAbraham Author:George Saunders
“While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that if irony serves as a retreat from an emotional engagement that you're overly concerned is uncool, that's a failure of nerve.” IfsThinkingMayEmotionalConcernedToolsIronyNervesEngagementStorytellerRetreatUncool Author:Steve Erickson
“We're going to rebuild America with American workers and American tools.” AmericaToolsWorkersAmerican Workers Author:Mike Pence
“Having been brought up among the biologists and having followed various debates about ways to improve the human template and other debates about the true nature of our nature, I began seriously to wonder: What if? We hold in our hands a tool that is more powerful - for good or ill - than any we have wielded before.” IfsWayHumansHandsPowerfulWonderToolsIllVariousDebateWhat IfTrue NatureBiologist Author:Margaret Atwood
“I've met dedicated people from all sectors of society who are committed to giving children the tools they need for a better future. I'm always impressed by the passionate young leaders I meet. As the pace of change accelerates, so do the challenges we face. However, the chances to solve them increase too.” PeopleNeedsGivingChildrenFacesYoungChallengesChanceLeaderMetsToolsIncreasePassionateCommittedSolvePaceDedicatedImpressedBetter FutureAccelerateChallenges We FacePace Of ChangeYoung Leaders Author:Shakira
“Keep in mind that every single generation before us has worked under the assumption that they possessed all the major tools for understanding the universe, and they were all wrong, without exception.” MindUniverseUnderstandingGenerationsMajorsToolsAssumptionExceptionPossessedUnderstanding The Universe Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“Many young people are hungry for new thinking. So I invite them to use the tools and other resources we have developed to accelerate the shift from domination to partnership.” PeopleThinkingUseYoungResourcesToolsHungryInvitesPartnershipDominationAccelerate Author:Riane Eisler
“Instruments of a trade are really fascinating to me. Things that enable you to do your job better. Rehabbing houses is really fun to me. I love taking a space and seeing the potential, gutting it, and putting it back together and I love the tools used to do that.” TogetherJobsUsedHouseFunSpaceSeeingToolsInstrumentsTradeFascinatingBack Together Author:Denison Witmer
“Technologies can be liberating, but it can also be a tool of coercion and control.” TechnologyToolsLiberatingCoercion Author:Noam Chomsky
“My mother's in my life, but at the time you imagine your mom passing away, not being there ... as a kid you try to think of something that hurts you the most ... It was just a tool [in "Hardball"].” ThinkingTryingKidsMotherHurtImagineMomToolsPassingPassingsBeing TherePassing AwayYour Mom Author:Michael B. Jordan
“As an actor, you never want to feel like a tool. You never want to feel like, "Hey, just come here, say this, stop here, look this way," and that's it. You want to have a little input.” WayWantFeelsLooksLittlesActorsToolsHeyInput Author:Michael B. Jordan
“I wanted to be a director first to protect my writing. I'm a playwright and you don't need to protect your writing when you're in the theater because everyone's there to protect the writing. When I had an idea for a film that I really cared about as my own, I wanted to direct it, and then I immediately became interested in directing in and of itself because it's such a deep art. You suddenly have all these tools at your disposal to tell the story.” NeedsWritingFirstsArtIdeasStoriesWantedFilmMy OwnDirectorsProtectToolsDirectTheaterPlaywright Author:Kenneth Lonergan
“I grew up watching movies that just transformed my vision, not just in cinema, in life, and you discover that this - it's an endless tool.” VisionGrewGrew UpToolsEndlessCinemaTransformed Author:Pablo Larrain
“First you train the followers to accomplish the mission. Second, you resource them: Make sure that they have the tools to do the job. Third, you reward them: You give them medals or bonuses.” GivingFirstsJobsResourcesToolsThirdsTrainRewardsAccomplishMissionsFollowersMedalBonus Author:Colin Powell
“If you want to get an advance machine tool job today, you need to know calculus. We know a lot of people don't, we can't expect everyone to know calculus, what do we do? We created a huge bubble that created a huge number of jobs to build houses and to be in retail. You don't have to have a lot of skills to work in the new Gap store that opened, at the latest Starbucks branch, or to hammer a nail for a new house.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantNeedsTodayJobsHouseNumbersHugeSkillsToolsMachinesStoresBranchesGapsBubblesNailsHammersStarbucksCalculusRetailHuge Numbers Author:Thomas Friedman
“There is always this interesting relationship we have with technology. When we invented writing Socrates used to say it was going to rot our brains because we were going to write everything down and not have to remember anything, and so it would atrophy our brains. So there has always been this human drive on the one hand to create tools, to create technologies to overcome our boundaries, but then there is always this reservation, and this fear that say these technologies are somehow unnatural and it is against nature to partake in them.” WritingHumansHandsRememberUsedInterestingBrainTechnologyToolsOvercomingDown AndBoundariesUnnaturalReservationsAtrophy Author:Jason Silva
“A young person in Africa with a smartphone has more communications technology than the U.S. president had 25 years ago. So if the tools to change the world are now in everyone's hands, then the individuals now have the power that only governments and corporations used to have a couple of decades ago. I get excited by how that increases our capacity to be creative, and how that increases our capacity to create transformative things in the world.” IfsWorldYearsPersonsHandsGovernmentYoungUsedIndividualPresidentTechnologyCreativeCommunicationCoupleCapacityYears AgoToolsIncreaseExcitedDecadesCorporationsChanging The WorldBe CreativeSmartphonesCommunication Technology Author:Jason Silva
“It is innate in our species to be cyborgian in nature. We have been in the self amplifying feedback loop with our tools since stone tools, and since the written word, and what we are seeing now is just a deepening of that. But it has always been the case. We have always done this.” Has BeensSelfDoneCasesWrittenSeeingToolsStonesSpeciesFeedbackInnateLoopsWritten Word Author:Jason Silva
“We have always dovetailed our cognition to our tools, but when our tools start dovetailing back, where do I end and where does the tool begin? It is going to be a really Twilight Zonish situation. It is definitely interesting. Once Google is in a blood cell sized device in our brain, do we become part Google? There are certainly interesting things to think about and provocative questions, but I don't think those provocative questions are going to do anything to slow down the onset of these technologies arriving and becoming even more pervasive.” ThinkingDoeEndsInterestingBrainSituationTechnologyBloodBecomingToolsCellsDevicesTwilightGoogleSlow DownInteresting ThingsProvocativeCognitionArrivingBlood Cells Author:Jason Silva
“When a novelist manages to describe or evoke something you thought or felt, without realizing that other people also found themselves in the same situation and had the same feelings, it creates that same solidarity. Maybe it's better to think of humor not as a tool to express the solidarity, but a kind of by-product. Maybe the realization "I'm not on my own on this one" is always, or often, funny.” PeopleThinkingKindFeelingsFoundFeltRealizingMy OwnSituationProductsToolsManageRealizationNovelistsSolidarityEvoke Author:Elif Batuman
“WikiLeaks is a lot of things. This past year, WikiLeaks was a tool of Russian intelligence and the Russian government and their interference operation against the American presidential election to benefit Donald Trump.” YearsGovernmentPastTrumpBenefitsToolsElectionPresidentialOperationsInterferencePresidential ElectionAmerican PresidentWikileaksRussian Government Author:Rachel Maddow
“I think, Russia is pushing against the West in general, not just the United States but the institutions of the West, the key governments in the West using a variety of tools, as well as military assault on Ukraine.” ThinkingWellsStatesGovernmentUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryKeysToolsInstitutionsWestRussiaVarietyPushingAssaultUkraine Author:Daniel Fried
“The Fed needs to adopt new tools, on its own and perhaps in cooperation with the other parts of the US government, to improve the economy from the bottom up. This includes increasing facilities for debt forgiveness for under-water mortgages and excessive student loans; increased credit facilities for small businesses and cooperatives; helping to underwrite mechanisms for creating affordable housing in cities; and more restrictive enforcement of financial regulatory rules to help rein in excessive banker risk and pay.” NeedsHelpingGovernmentWaterPayCitiesEconomyRiskStudentsCreatingToolsBottomFinancialCreditDebtFedsCooperationMechanismEnforcementSmall BusinessHousingLoanFacilityBankersMortgageAffordableReinsCooperativesStudent LoanAffordable Housing Author:Gerald Epstein
“It's interesting to see the lament of each generation overwhelmed by the next new tool. I can show you passages from scholars of Germany in the 1480s lamenting the fact that they are overloaded with all this stuff to read because of the printing press.” I CanFactsShowsNextStuffInterestingGenerationsToolsPressesGermanyPassagesScholarOverwhelmedPrintingLamentPrinting PressOverloaded Author:Paul Saffo
“I don't think information overload is a function of the volume of information. It's a derivative of the volume of information plus the sense-making tools you have.” ThinkingInformationToolsFunctionPlusVolumeDerivativesOverloadInformation Overload Author:Paul Saffo
“I think it was Samuel Johnson who said, "There are two kinds of information in this world: that what you know and that what you know where to get." The tools help the latter, and that's what keeps us from going nuts. The sense of overload comes from the gap between that sudden jump in volume (of information) and the tools we have to make sense of it.” ThinkingKnowsWorldKindSaidTwoHelpingInformationThis WorldToolsMake SenseLatterGapsNutsVolumeJohnsonOverload Author:Paul Saffo
“The music I make is very underground-sounding, it doesn't sound like it goes into the charts. It doesn't sound like it's trying to fit into today's style. So I think I have already a vibrating tool to an art form that isn't the mainstream. I'm very outside of the mainstream in my taste of music.” ThinkingTryingArtTodayFormSoundStyleFitTasteToolsMainstreamTrying To Fit In Author:Gordon Raphael
“My primary early interest was in marketing and my aim was to improve its theories, methods and tools. Early on I pressed companies to adopt a consumer orientation and to be in the value creation business. I didn't pay much attention to the social responsibilities of business until later. Now I am pressing companies to address the triple bottom line: people, the planet, and profits. I found that companies were too much into short term profit maximization and they needed to invest more in sustainability thinking.” PeopleThinkingValuesFoundSocialTermInterestLinesPayAttentionResponsibilityCompanyToo MuchCreationPlanetsTheoryNeededToolsAimMethodBottomMarketingProfitPrimariesConsumersAddressesSustainabilitySocial ResponsibilityBottom LineShort TermOrientationProfit Maximization Author:Philip Kotler