As an actor, you have many tools - your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have your eyes because they communicate your thought process. In fact, generally in film, what you don't say is more important than what you say. That's not so much the case for stage.
The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
It's never too late. Don't focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.
...good words - that triumphalism of positivity- but life will claw and eat you - chew you over and over - if you carry such a small knife ...
The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.
Man is a tool-using Animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
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.
A poor craftsman blames his tools.
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
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!
It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.
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.
O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small.
Don't force it... get a bigger hammer.
These prinÂciples laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never tell a lie to a man, but one may to a woman; that one must never cheat any one, but one may a husband; that one must never pardon an insult, but one may give one and so on. These principles were possibly not reasonable and not good, but they were of unfailing certainty, and so long as he adhered to them, Vronsky felt that his heart was at peace and he could hold his head up.
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.
A craftsman is only as good as his tools.
Old religious dogma attempts to convince you that you are on a journey to God, then makes you pay tolls along that roadway.
But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.
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