Tools - Ferramentas

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. 
They went out and happened to things.
......................................Leonardo da Vinci

Men have become the tools of their tools.
.......................Henry David Thoreau

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
.....................Confucius

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
.................Ani DiFranco

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
..........................Buddha

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
..........................Albert Einstein

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.
...................... Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Direction

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... 
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. 
......................Albert Einstein


Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. 
Live the life you have imagined. 
............................Henry David Thoreau


If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. 
.................................Lao Tzu


The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life. 
...............................Plato


Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. 
....................Antoine de Saint-Exupery


The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction. 
..............................Nicolaus Copernicus

Verão

Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
====Vanessa Redgrave


Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
====Alfred Austin


In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
====Albert Camus


It will not always be summer; build barns.
====Hesiod


Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
====Sam Keen


We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain.
==== Henry David Thoreau

Ilha da Cotia, Paraty, RJ - Fotografia Leonora Fink