"My so-called failures have been some of my greatest learning tools. I just make sure to fail up."
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"A sincere compliment is one of the most effective tools to teach and motivate others."
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"I believe that education is freedom. It provides the tools to affect one's own destiny."
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"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."
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"When you're an actor, your body isn't your own. Your body is part of a tool that you use. Everybody else there is using you as a tool, so they have access to those things, too."
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"Dissembling is a common tool of the anger junkie."
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"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."
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"Tools, of course, can be the subtlest of traps."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Being a good observer is a great tool to have as a writer, just taking the world in."
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"I use all sorts of things to work with: old brooms, old sweaters, and all kinds of peculiar tools and materials... I paint to excite myself, and make something for myself."
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"Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one."
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"I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art."
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"One of the most important tools that a filmmaker has are his/her notes."
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"It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government."
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"I build the individual modules to meet a demand. If I need the music to change direction, I want to have the tools to be able to do that."
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"I use a laptop more as a tool, as sort of the central artery. Everything goes through the digital audio card of my computer, but if I had my druthers I'd do everything in dedicated hardware."
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"If you nail a tool shed closed, how do you put the hammer away?"
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"When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window."
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