Power Tools Quotes:

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.

- Henry Ward Beecher

source: Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

topic: Power, Men, Hands, Power Tools

Nothing is forever, if you have enough power tools.

- Albie Sachs

topic: Men, Forever, Tools, Power Tools

If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.

- Dave Barry

topic: Tools, Might, Has Beens, Power Tools

You are not on this planet to produce anything with your body. You are on this planet to produce something with your soul. Your body is simply and merely the tool of your soul. Your mind is the power that makes the body go. So what you have here is a power tool, used in the creation of the soul's desire.

- Neale Donald Walsch

topic: Soul, Mind, Desire, Power Tools

I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.

- Nathan Fillion

topic: Dirty, Weekend, Hands, Dirty Work, Power Tools

Generally, appreciation means some blend of thankfulness, admiration, approval, and gratitude. In the financial world, something that "appreciates" grows in value. With the power tool of appreciation, you get the benefit of both perspectives: as you learn to be consistently thankful and approving, your life will grow in value.

- Doc Childre

topic: Gratitude, Appreciation, Mean, Power Tools, Approving

What AI could do is essentially be a power tool that magnifies human intelligence and gives us the ability to move our civilization forward. It might be curing disease, it might be eliminating poverty. Certainly it should include preventing environmental catastrophe. If AI could be instrumental to all those things, then I would feel it was worthwhile.

- Stuart J. Russell

topic: Moving, Civilization, Giving, Power Tools, Human Intelligence

Ram Dass

- Ram Dass

source: Ram Dass (2013). “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart”, p.80, Sounds True

topic: Art, Pain, Unbearable, Transcending, Quaker

Father's Day: When you get that lethal combination of alcohol and new power tools.

- David Letterman

topic: Father, Alcohol, Tools, Power Tools, Funny Fathers Day

Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun, to communicate to mass audiences his opinion, no matter how ignorant, how aggressive, it may be.

- Herbert Marcuse

topic: Determination, Gun, Race, Self Determination, Individual Autonomy

There's nothing inherently lame about electricity. I've got a basement full of power tools that all operate with electricity, and they're manly items. And when you see a great big locomotive hauling a mile of freight cars, that's a hybrid. A lot of people don't understand that.

- P. J. O'Rourke

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Car, People, Tools, Locomotives, Power Tools

So while in men's magazines success is a power tool to get sex and love, and therefore the look of success is crucial, in women's magazines love and sex are power tools to get success and therefore both the look of love and the sexual tease/promise are crucial.

- Warren Farrell

topic: Sex, Men, Promise, Power Tools, Sex And Love

For me, the scariest thing about a serial killer is that there's somebody who lives next door to you, running power tools late into the night, and you don't know he has a refrigerator full of penises.

- David Fincher

topic: Running, Night, Doors, Power Tools

Dear Miss Independent, I've decided that of all the women I've ever known, you are the only one I will ever love more than hunting, fishing, football, and power tools. You may not know this, but the other time I asked you to marry me, the night I put the crib together, I meant it. Even though I knew you weren't ready. God, I hope you're ready now. Marry me, Ella. Because no matter where you go or what you do, I'll love you every day for the rest of my life. —Jack

- Lisa Kleypas

source: Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.352, St. Martin's Press

topic: Love, Football, Independent, Jack Travis, Power Tools

Well, you missed out on some important protocol, Ella. You can't stand between a Texan and his power tools. We like them. Big ones that drain the national grid. We also like truck-stop breakfasts, large moving objects, Monday night football, and the missionary position. We don't drink light beer, drive Smart cars, or admit to knowing the names of more than about five or six colors. And we don't wax our chests, ever.

- Lisa Kleypas

topic: Football, Monday, Smart, Monday Night, Monday Night Football

Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.

- Dan Buettner

topic: Exercise, Garden, People, Power Tools, Yard Work