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It is not the tools we use that make us good, but rather how we employ them. / Upon failure, it is easier to blame the tools used rather than how they were employed.

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a bad workman always blames his tools

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Source Word

a bad workman always blames his tools

Proverb

It is not the tools we use that make us good, but rather how we employ them. / Upon failure, it is easier to blame the tools used rather than how they were employed.

Japanese Meaning

道具そのものではなく、道具の使い方が結果を左右するという考え方 / 自分の技量不足を道具に責任転嫁する様子を戒める表現 / 失敗した時には、実際の技量や工夫よりも与えられた道具に責任を求める傾向を示す