"The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade."
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"Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show."
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"Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed."
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"One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more."
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"The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing."
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"Discipline is a necessary tool to help you get what you want in life. It forces you to stay on center and to move away from the things that are not necessary."
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"Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment."
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"A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools."
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"If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail."
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"Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could."
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"Handle your tools without mittens."
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"Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created."
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"By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth."
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"Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them."
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"Remember this maxim: When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. The way you perceive things is an extremely powerful tool that will allow you to fully bring the power of intention into your life."
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"A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea."
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"The checklist is one of the most high powered productivity tool ever discovered."
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"The hand is the tool of tools."
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"It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life."
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"Pretty Powerful symbolises my belief that all women are pretty, and with the right tools, are empowered to a higher level of pretty - it's about being confident and about being who you are"
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