Photoshop in CC - why won't tools like the clone stamp, healing brush work?

Sometimes these tools work fine but at other times they won't or may work on one layer and not another. It's completly random. Sometimes I'll have to restart Ps and they will work for a little while but when I go to use them again they won't.
What can I do to resolve this issue?
Any help would be much apperciated.

There are other discussions about it that haven't been answered either:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1242776
http://forums.adobe.com/message/5506519
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1263415

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