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“Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.”

Source: The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain

“The Lord has made available in our day remarkable resources that enable you to learn about and love this work that is sparked by the Spirit of ElijahIt is no coincidence that FamilySearch and other tools have come forth at a time when young people are so familiar with a wide range of information and communication technologies. Your fingers have been trained to text and tweet to accelerate and advance the work of the Lord-not just to communicate quickly with your friends. The skills and aptitude evident among many young people today are a preparation to contribute to the work of salvation.”

“Now and then, living more with less means paying more money. It may mean buying better quality - leaving behind repetitive purchases of discount junk for one expensive, well-made, thoughtfully designed tool that will last.”

Wells May Mean Made Lasts Simple Behinds Quality Tools Leaving Expensive Buying Now And Then More Money Junk Simple Living Repetitive Discounts Living More

Author:Doris Janzen Longacre

“Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.”

Made Hands Born Tools Farmers

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.”

Men Made Seems Inspiring Magic Creation Inspire Creatures Tools Metaphor Verge Efficacy Metaphoric

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool.”

Knows Needs Should Wells Made Tools Users

Book:Management

Source: Management

“To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.”

Men Humans Made Self Use Human Beings Stupid Self Improvement Capacity Tools Regard Instruments Improvement Makers Autonomy Binding Initiation Short Sighted

Book:Manhood of humanity

Source: Manhood of humanity

“Success is the 'discovery,' the creation of an idea, pulling something out of the depths of your mind that never existed before. To further complete that success, a painting is made as a communication tool for that idea.”

Mind Made Ideas Creation Painting Communication Discovery Tools Depth Pulling

Author:Jim Rowe

“Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet. It's funny how much a single word can provide focus and direction. As soon as I claimed that identity, I started clearing more and more space for poetry in my life and applying poetic tools to other areas of my life. The world became a different place, and I witnessed it through different kinds of eyes.”

World Writing Kind Made Different Eye Poetry Space Decision Focus Identity Poet Conscious Areas Tools Poetic Different Kinds Different Place Interacting Clearing Single Word

Author:Tracy K. Smith

“For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like the statues made by Dædalus or the tripods of Hephæstus, of which the poet says that "self-moved they enter the assembly of the gods" - shuttles in a loom could fly to and fro and a plectrum play a lyre all self-moved, then master-craftsmen would have no need of servants nor masters of slaves.”

Ifs Needs Made Self Play Politics Economy Poet Masters Tools Tasks Moved Slave Servant Liberalism Statues Assembly Craftsman Bidding Tripods

Author:Aristotle

“The Internet has no such organization - files are made available at random locations. To search through this chaos, we need smart tools, programs that find resources for us.”

Needs Made Internet Smart Resources Program Tools Organization Chaos Available Location Files

Author:Clifford Stoll

“When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.”

“When I started making music, I made music in a very commercial space and I didn't have room to really explore things on my own terms. It took me awhile to create a little bubble where I could explore other things, and new things. When I did that, my tools were songwriting and arranging.”

Littles Made Term My Own Space Rooms Tools Songwriting Bubbles New Things Arranging

Author:Robyn

“This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as any, if a vision is to be made clear to others. And all the men I have known do creative work obtained it; either mechanically, by the walls of a workroom, or by that withdrawal into themselves which is part of their power.”

Ifs Men Made Sometimes Artist Known Vision Creative Clear He Man Wall Tools Selfish Creative Work Withdrawal Seclusion

Author:Georgiana Burne-Jones

“I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what she said made sense, and she parsed sentences on the blackboard and gave me, I'd like to think, some sense of English grammar and that there is a grammar, that those commas serve a purpose and that a sentence has a logic, that you can break it down. I've tried not to forget those lessons, and to treat the English language with respect as a kind of intricate tool.”

“In general, good tools for staying in sync just haven't been built and made available to the world.”

World Made Havens Built Tools Available Staying Sync

Author:Justin Rosenstein

“Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.”

Made Two Company Design Computer Worship Tools Phones Ships Data Apples Maps Devices Google Youtube Dichotomy Complementary Google Maps

Author:Ben Parr

“The study of tools as well as of books should have a place in the public schools. Tools, machinery, and the implements of the farmshould be made familiar to every boy, and suitable industrial education should be furnished for every girl.”

Should Wells Made Book School Girl Education Boys Study Tools Should Have Familiar Machinery Public School Suitable Every Girl

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because it has been so exclusively dedicated to incanting anemic souls into Heaven, it has been made the tool of much earthly villainy. It has, for the most part, stood silently by while a predatory economy has ravaged the world, destroyed its natural beauty and health, divided and plundered its human communities and households.”

Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

“Films are made the same today, as they've ever been made, in certain respects. The scriptwriting, the pre-production, the storyboarding, and the designing are all the same. The technique of animation has changed, in the sense that rather than drawing it by hand, we use a computer as a tool. The computer has become a pencil to draw or paint the images that we see in a film.”

Made Use Hands Today Film Certain Design Changed Computer Draws Tools Paint Productions Technique Drawing Pencils Animation Storyboarding

Author:Rob Minkoff

“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 tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness. That isn't what they would describe what they're doing, but the fact is they make a virtue of the sort of hand-made nature of what they're doing.”

People Wells Kind Made Facts Hands Interest Virtue Band Tools Evolve Sloppiness

Author:Brian Eno

“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

“We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite. We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.”

“I think that France has not made it clear enough recently to our German friends how important it is to introduce euro bonds as a tool against speculation. And how the necessary budget discipline needs to be accompanied by growth.”

Thinking Needs Made Important Enough Growth Clear Discipline Tools Made It France Budgets Introducing Speculation Euro

Author:Francois Hollande

“I've been making films with almost no dialogue (laughs), so sound and music become a very powerful character to tell the story. It's almost like with sound and music and images, it's your tool to tell the story, especially when I decide to structure the film in a way that usually goes against the conventions of the three-act structure which most films are made out of.”

Way Made Character Stories Film Three Sound Powerful Laughing Music Is Tools Structure Dialogue Conventions Very Powerful Sound And Music

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“The tools of the academic designer are a piece of paper and a pencil with an eraser. If a mistake is made, it can always be erased and changed. If the practical-reactor designer errs, he wears the mistake around his neck; it cannot be erased. Everyone sees it.”

Ifs Made Mistake Pieces Changed Paper Tools Practicals Made It Designer Necks Academic Pencils Erasers

Author:Hyman Rickover

“Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving. Testing was used in advertising decades ago. The internet has made testing so easy that every online marketer can use it to improve advertising results. Google content experiment is a free tool for you to do split testing.”

Made Use Used Easy Results Internet Tools Decades Experiments Advertising Online Splits Google Improving Testing Marketers Never Stop Improving

Author:David Ogilvy

“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

“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

“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

“The entertainment industry, the advertising industry have taken [the] tools from the art world and made themselves much more politically potent. We are really devastated and very impotent right now. A photographer just working for an advertising company has a platform to be much more politically effective in the world than an artist.”

World Art Made Artist Company Taken Industry Right Now Tools Photographer Entertainment Advertising Platforms Art World Devastated Entertainment Industry Advertising Industry

Author:Jeff Koons

“What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment, in a specific context, by a specific photographer employing specific tools.”

Looks Made Moments Shows Particular Tools Photographer Photograph Employing

Book:Depth of field: essays on photography, mass media, and lens culture

Source: Depth of field: essays on photography, mass media, and lens culture

“There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.”

Humans Made Turns Progress Special Labor Tools Machines Obstacles Contribution Categories Replaced Idle Decrease

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“I never demonstrate how art should be made or what the outcome should look like. Instead, give kids the tools and the materials to make their own art. Have them experience the process.”

Giving Should Looks Art Made Kids Process Materials Tools Outcomes

Author:Jerry Pinkney

“I do think stories are one of the best tools for communicating across any number of cultures. But I also think there are wildly successful leaders who are introverted, disciplined, lead via spreadsheets and goals, and might not "appear" to be a great leader...but in retrospect, made a massive impact.”

Thinking Made Stories Might Culture Goal Numbers Leader Successful Tools Impact Communicate Massive Great Leader Retrospect Introverted Successful Leaders

Author:David Livermore

“I made an instrument which I'm really happy about, because I always wanted to have a machine that did this so once I established it as my unique tool, it was like, now I'm going to master it like a guitar.”

Made Wanted Masters Unique Tools Machines Instruments Guitar Really Happy

Author:Jamie Lidell

“On the one hand, I loved being a banker. I loved how numbers could tell a story and how you can invest in ideas and see them translate into products and services and create jobs. What I didn't like, particularly where I was working in Brazil during the debt crisis of the early '80s, was how the poor were excluded from the banking system. I made the decision to try and experiment with whether we could use the tools of banking to extend the benefits of the economy to the poor.”

“Apple made tools that helped people express their creativity and Steve Jobs knew that so he told that story well. But Facebook makes tools that help people connect and Mark Zuckerberg is hardly a story-teller. Nevertheless, he's become a leader because his products do such a good job of solving a problem.”

People Wells Made Helping Stories Problem Jobs Leader Creativity Products Tools Mark Apples Nevertheless Good Job Zuckerberg

Author:Lewis Schiff

“I wanted to make a massive work so as soon as Nick Mitzevich invited me I said yes straight away and began to make the work. The island was made in direct response. I used the diagnostic tool of Rorschach blots - something designed to extract and evaluate the dark and unconscious elements of our personality.”

Made Said Wanted Used Dark Personality Elements Tools Direct Response Islands Unconscious Massive Invited Evaluate Rorschach

Author:Ben Quilty

“I sound like such a tool, but becoming a mother has made me next-level confident. I've never felt more empowered.”

Made Mother Next Felt Sound Levels Becoming Tools Empowered Next Level Becoming A Mother

Author:Kelly Clarkson

“Technology didn't just go, clunk. It was this early disease, starting with a plow, I guess, or something like that, the first tool that made it so you could do more things. The first domesticated animal, or the first wheel.”

Firsts Made Animal Technology Disease Tools Starting Made It Wheels Domesticated Animals

Author:Jerry Garcia

“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

“I think art is the development of this interface between mind and matter, between mind and phenomenon, between what's inside of us and what's happening outside of us. It developed over the course of the last 35,000 years. We made a lot of improvements because it not only gave us the tools to understand the world better, but it also gave us better and better tools to do it. It's that continuous relationship: technology and discernment.”

Thinking World Years Mind Art Made Matter Lasts Courses Technology Development Happenings Art Is Tools Improvement Phenomenon Discernment Interfaces Mind And Matter

Author:Vik Muniz

“About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie.”

Years Made Hands Next Comedy Doors Wall Years Ago Tools Radio Holes Apartment Fists Comedy Movie

Author:Klaus Kinski

“Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn't really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn't until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth.”

Years Wells Made Growth Building Huge Fit Easier Tools Contact Made It Make Sense Site Imports Viral

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to watch, tasting the wooden planks, trying to steal the tools. It made for an interesting day for everyone, as the boys tried to keep the dragonets away from the carpenters, and the dragonets tried to get at the carpenters, and the carpenters worked probably a great deal faster than they ever had in their lives, sure that the dragonets would go from tasting the wood to tasting them.”

Men Trying Made Found Interesting Poor Deals Boys Watches Tools Woods Stealing Faster Fascinating Pens Furniture Poor Man Tasting Carpenter

Book:Alta: Joust #2

Source: Alta: Joust #2

“The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing.”

Knows May Doe Made Sometimes Use Technology Knowing Tools Intention Strikes Lifts Knives Hammers Hold Fast Levers

Book:The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

“Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool whose only purpose was to make holes in human beings.”

Humans Made Purpose Human Beings Mouths Tools Sticks Eight Holes Thirty Chemicals Pillow Loaded Caliber Revolver Thirty Eight

Book:Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!

Source: Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!

“So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?”

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

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