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.
Philip PullmanTags: technology technological-bias tools
Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: power tools children-good-advice
Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose.
Steve MaraboliTags: motivational life inspirational truth purpose tools weaknesses strengths acceptance-of-oneself
We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.
Marshall McLuhanTags: work creativity tools shape
Once you start recognizing the truth of your story, finish the story. It happened but you're still here, you're still capable, powerful, you're not your circumstance. It happened and you made it through. You're still fully equipped with every single tool you need to fulfill your purpose.
Steve MaraboliTags: motivational life inspirational truth purpose powerful circumstance life-story self-love tools
These were the things that built the world. Not to know or care about them was a betrayal of fundamental principles, a betrayal of gender, of species. What could be more useless than a man who couldn't fix a dripping faucet—fundamentally useless, dead to history, to the messages in his genes? I wasn't sure I disagreed.
Don DeLilloTags: tools masculinity manliness maleness
There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.
Adriana TrigianiTags: artist tools deadline stamina
Today, you have the opportunity to transcend from a disempowered mindset of existence to an empowered reality of purpose-driven living. Today is a new day that has been handed to you for shaping. You have the tools, now get out there and create a masterpiece.
Steve MaraboliTags: motivational inspirational existence reality living opportunity today create tools mindset shaping transcend masterpiece disempowered purpose-driven
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Calvin CoolidgeTags: worship deity prosperity tools instrument
Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.
The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world.
Tags: science words reality suffering living tools dictionary
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