Best tools & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.”

Ends Use Would Be Humanity Next Answers Compassion Steps Mass Empathy Solutions Tools Possession Ethical Sensible Discernment Scenarios Extermination

Author:Aberjhani

“Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.”

Ends Science Perfect Taken Tools Instruments Harm Invaluable Superb

Author:Carl Jung

“We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic: Be the devil's tool, resort to black magic, None can diverge from the ends which Heaven foreordained.”

Ends Earth Heaven Black Magic Birth Devil Tools Logic Conformity Traits Resorts Black Magic

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.”

People Needs Ends Team Fronts Tools Focused Users Site User Experience

Author:Jimmy Wales

“3D is great, but I just think of it as another tool, like colour or music or sound. It has the potential to add another emotional layer to certain things if you use it right. But it's not the saviour [of the movies], the be all and end all, the reason to do something.”

Ifs Thinking Ends Reason Use Certain Sound Emotional Tools Add Colour Layers Saviour

Author:Tim Burton

“Attention is the most powerful tool of the human spirit. We can enhance or augment our attention with practices like meditation and exercise, diffuse it with technologies like email and Blackberries, or alter it with pharmaceuticals. In the end, though, we are fully responsible for how we choose to use this extraordinary tool.”

Humans Ends Use Spirit Powerful Attention Practice Technology Focus Meditation Exercise Tools Responsible Extraordinary Most Powerful Email Human Spirit Blackberries

Author:Linda Stone

“In Chaos Magic , beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects. To fully realize this is to face a terrible freedom in which nothing is true and everything is permitted, which is to say that everything is possible, there are no certainties , and the consequences can be ghastly.”

Ends Faces Belief Realizing Magic Effects Terrible Creating Consequence Tools Chaos Certainty Ghastly

Book:Liber Kaos

Source: Liber Kaos

“Here's why I don't have time to 'play church': at the end of the day, when I was supposed to be discarded, and the tools came in to kill me, to crush my head or whatever you're supposed to do, the Lord took His hand, pushed in there, and pushed me back out of the way. And they thought they got me. But at the end of the day God had a plan for a broken situation.”

Way Ends Play Hands Church Situation Lord Plans Broken Tools Supposed To Be Crush The End Of The Day Kill Me Discarded

Author:Fred Hammond

“Personal power is not the end of the process. It is a tool that you use to get someplace. The purpose of the car is not to live in the car, it is to drive you someplace you want to go.”

Want Ends Use Purpose Process Car Tools Mysticism Personal Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Mean Ends Purpose Turns Individual Society Tools Dignity Ultimate Criminals Destroyed Decent Makers

Book:A land of our own: an oral autobiography

Source: A land of our own: an oral autobiography

“When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, Convert this to Android format.”

Writing Ends Use Program Tools Buttons Format Oracles Java Androids

Author:Larry Ellison

“The difference between art and craft lies not in the tools you hold in your hands, but in the mental set that guides them. For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.”

Inspirational Art Ends Hands Motivational Lying Artist Differences Vision Tools Edges Guides Crafts Visible Vehicle Artisans Arts And Crafts

Book:Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

Source: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

“With biobanking there's just another tool available to make sure that the land we actually conserve has better biodiversity values. It's usually more contiguous. You see, just because you preserve two dozen trees at the end of a development site doesn't mean that's a great habitat.”

Mean Two Ends Values Tree Land Development Tools Available Preserves Dozen Site Habitat Biodiversity

Author:Frank Sartor

“Dealing with adversity is like preparing for surgery. By putting our faith in what the doctor has said, we believe we will be better off if we have the surgery. But that does not make it any less painful. By submitting to the hand of a surgeon, we are saying that our ultimate goal is health, even at the cost of pain. Adversity is the same way. It is a means to an end. It is God's tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives.”

Source: How to Handle Adversity

“No art takes places without inspiration. Every artist also needs effective knowledge of his or her tools (e.g., does a certain brush function well with a particular kind of paint?). What's more, artists need effective techniques for using those tools. Likewise, to express ourselves skillfully with maximum efficiency and minimum effort, we need to investigate the most effective ways of using the mind and body since, in the end, they are the only "tools" we truly possess in life.”

Way Needs Mind Wells Kind Doe Art Ends Body Inspiration Artist Certain Effort Particular Tools Function Paint Technique Efficiency Minimum Brushes Maximum Mind And Body

Author:H. E Davey

“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

“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

“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

“The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.”

People Humans Made Ends Human Beings Principles Morality Respect Tools Tolerance Glad Oppression Free Will Affirmation Respecting Others Hideous

Author:Felix Adler

“A photographer needs to be a good editor of negatives and prints! In fact, most of the prints I make are for my eyes only, and they are no good. I find the single most valuable tool in the darkroom is my trash can - that's where most of my prints end up.”

Needs Ends Facts Eye Photography Tools Photographer Valuable Print Editors Trash Trash Cans Darkroom

Author:John Sexton

“Somebody is going to find a way digitally that is just as innovative. In the end, the tools can change, but there is always someone who can think of something cool to do.”

Thinking Way Ends Tools Innovative

Author:Patton Oswalt

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

Ends Use Tools

Author:Stewart Brand

“I think of my body as a tool to do the stuff I need to do, but not the be all end all of my existence.”

Thinking Needs Ends Body Stuff Existence Tools Body Image Female Body

Author:Lena Dunham

“When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.”

Ends Hands Artist Turns Style Tools

Author:David Bowie

“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.”

“The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of things that's in the photograph - a kind of rhetorical device or rhetorical strategy. It's always felt very natural to me, because I want a person to end up thinking about the world, and to think about it in a way that is transformed by the experience of art.”

“I believe that a concept that may have some flaws is nonetheless important as a tool to critique abuses on all sides of the political spectrum. In the end, I think that a more useful 'universal' concept than that of a 'right', though, is a 'need'.”

Thinking Needs Believe May Important Ends Political I Believe Sides Concepts Tools Universal Abuse Flaws Spectrum Critique Political Spectrum

Author:Alison Assiter

“When it comes to designing your first apartment, I think people get overwhelmed and end up collecting pieces that don't always mesh well together because they don't have a clear vision. Take your time and use tools that can help inspire and guide you through the process.”

People Thinking Firsts Wells Ends Helping Use Together Process Vision Clear Pieces Design Inspire Tools Guides Apartment Overwhelmed Collecting Take Your Time Mesh Clear Vision

Author:Karlie Kloss

“The greatest thing about my house was that I was in the far end of it and I could make as much noise as I wanted. By the time I moved out, I had a full-sized piano, two full-sized organs, bits and pieces of a drum kit, and a whole computer set up for Pro Tools. I had this mattress in between the piano and the organ. That was the only walking room.”

Two Ends Whole Wanted House Bits Rooms Pieces Walking Computer Tools Moved Noise Piano Organs Bits And Pieces Mattresses

Author:Zach Condon

“Today the patent office is obsolete. You just take whatever you do, tool up, and start production for six months. At the end of the six months you put the data on all the computer inputs all over the world and you got your business. You can make all your money, and then people can steal it, but by then it doesn't matter because you've made the money up front and you avoid wasting money in lawsuits. [My father] had all these kinds of ideas years ahead of others.”

People World Years Kind Made Ideas Ends Matter Today Father Fronts Months Office Six Computer Tools Productions Stealing Data Six Months Obsolete Input Patents Lawsuit Wasting Money

Author:Paul Laffoley

“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.”

Thinking Doe Ends Interesting Brain Situation Technology Blood Becoming Tools Cells Devices Twilight Google Slow Down Interesting Things Provocative Cognition Arriving Blood Cells

Author:Jason Silva

“Brands must empower their community to be change agents in their own right. To that end, they need to take on a mentoring role. This means the brand provides the tools, techniques and strategies for their customers to become more effective marketers in achieving their own goals.”

Needs Mean Ends Goal Community Roles Achieve Tools Strategy Customers Technique Agents Brands Empowering Setting Goals Mentoring Marketers Change Agent

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a fundamental reorganizing of the power of the end user. The Internet brings tremendous tools to the end user, and that end user is going to use them.”

People Thinking Ends Use Missing Internet Tools Fundamentals Users

Author:Eric Schmidt

“The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.”

Ends Tools Method Insight Operations Barriers March Epic Breach

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I'm going to continue fighting for the end user.”

Want Real Ends Fighting Tools Engagement Users Reactionaries One On One

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it to gravel, we can shape it into glory. Examples from every other life are left for us to see, lifeworks finished and unfinished, guiding and warning. Near the end our sculpture is nearly finished, and we can smooth and polish what we started years before. We can make our progress then, but to do it we must see past the appearances of age.”

Years Ends Age Past Left Given Behinds Progress Example Shapes Glory Tools Lifetime Appearance Finished Block Pounds Warning Drag Smooth Sculpture Polish Marble Unfinished Gravel

Author:Richard Bach

“I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds, I am not a sacrifice on their altars.”

Needs May Mean Ends Use Wish Sacrifice Tools Accomplish Wounds Servant Altars Anthem Bandages

Book:For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.”

“The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.”

Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

“All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.”

Ifs World Way Love Believe Stills Ends Philosophy Use Shows Body Lying Memories Walks Tools Sight Medicine Senses Perceive Trusted Our Memories Soma American Gods

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to know the meaning of all things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a sacrifice on their alters.”

Knows Needs May Mean Ends Use Body Spirit Wish Sacrifice Arms Mountain Tools All Things Spread Accomplish Lifts Servant Quests Summit Sanctions Warrants

Author:Ayn Rand

“If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.”

Ifs Ends Turns Tools Sticks Dirty

Book:My American Journey

Source: My American Journey

“But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends.”

Ends Sometimes Perfect Tools Imperfect

Author:Ted Dekker

“What he has in addition is pure empathy and projection,” Dr. Bloom said. “He can assume your point of view, or mine – and maybe some other points of view that scare and sicken him. It’s an uncomfortable gift, Jack. Perception’s a tool that’s pointed on both ends.”

Said Ends Views Mines Pure Perception Empathy Tools Assuming Point Of View Uncomfortable Scare Drs Projection

Book:Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

“In the end, the most important thing is to be true to yourself and those you love and work hard. I mean, work like there's no tomorrow. Train. Strive. I mean, really train and cultivate your talent to the highest degree. Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive. Use the tools of your trade, if it's books or a floor to dance on or a body of water to swim in. Whatever it is, it's yours.”

“Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.”

Love Humans Ends Past Race Poet Lovers Speech Intellectual Tools Scientist Wit Human Race Shops Gossip Consolation Scandal Housewife Nursery Chatter Malicious Tycoons Malicious Gossip

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow.”

Source: Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

“I have sort of a Zen body philosophy, I'm sort of like: we're one weight one day, we're one weight another day, and some day our body just doesn't even exist at all! It's just a vessel I've been given to move through this life. I think about my body as a tool to do the stuff I need to do, but not the be all and end all of my existence. Which sounds like I spent a week at a meditation retreat, but it's genuinely how I feel.”

Thinking Needs Feels Ends Philosophy Body Moving Given Stuff Sound Existence Meditation Week One Day Tools Weight This Life Retreat Body Image Vessel Another Day

Author:Lena Dunham

“The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.”

People Ends Company Practice Democracy Tools Complexes Productions Eras Corporate Dictatorship Conventional Participation Coming To An End Using People Unilateralism

Author:Ricardo Semler

“If you could choose to master a single ingredient, no choice would teach you more about cooking than the egg. It is an end in itself; it's a multipurpose ingredient; it's an all-purpose garnish; it's an invaluable tool. The egg teaches your hands finesse and delicacy. It helps your arms develop strength and stamina. It instructs in the way proteins behave in heat and in the powerful ways we can change food mechanically. It's a lever for getting other foods to behave in great ways. Learn to take the egg to its many differing ends, and you've enlarged your culinary repertoire by a factor of ten.”

Source: Ruhlman's Twenty: 20 Techniques, 200 Recipes, A Cook's Manifesto

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