A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.
You can create some soul out of something that's electronic or mechanical.
When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches.
There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.
I have a thing for tools.
The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.
Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.
Nothing is less instructive than a machine.