“We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.”

“A man, a real man, must never be an agent, a tool, or a gambler—acting for himself or for others—he must employ such. A real man—a financier—was never a tool. He used tools. He created. He led.”

Theodore Dreiser book The Financier

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

“We're all like tools. Not only like tools, we are tools, tools of Time. We're worn into grooves by Time — by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second-rate or champions, each in his way, in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness - achievement.”

Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. (1868–1924) American industrial engineer

“The point is not how we use a tool, but how it uses us.”

Nick Joaquín (1917–2004) Filipino writer

“First we build the tools, then they build us.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

“Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower book Mandate for Change

“In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.”

Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist

“The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.”

Louise L. Hay (1926–2017) American writer

“Man is a tool-using animal…Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher