Tool Mastery Quotes

Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.

Every role requires its own set of tools, and I think, because of that, it is very hard to ever feel totally prepared or totally able.

A man and his tools make a man and his trade.

I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.

I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.

Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world of primitive building methods, where there was meaning in every stroke of an axe, expression in every bite of chisel.

The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.

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.

My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman.

I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.

The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.

The successful construction of all machinery depends on the perfection of the tools employed; and whoever is a master in the arts of tool-making possesses the key to the construction of all machines... The contrivance and construction of tools must therefore ever stand at the head of the industrial arts.