Quotes About Resourcefulness

Even in 'Khatron,' I used to wash my own clothes.

I had only one pair of white shoes with a very high heel, and they were terrible. They got terribly dirty, because I had no money and I walked all over Paris by foot. I also only had one black dress, which I had to wash every night.

I grew up during the war years in a tiny cottage with no electricity. Water for washing was pumped from a pond. My brother and I had to fetch drinking water from a tap at the end of the lane, and light was from candles, paraffin lamps, and our nightly log fire.

My home life, growing up, was like tumbling inside a washing machine as I shuttled around the middle of Kentucky with my mother. She was never content to stay in one place, or with one man, for too long. She was as smart as she was independent, though, and always landed some job that brought in a little money.

The most useful virtues, for one who walked on, were flexibility and a willingness to improvise.

Going with it was Tenley's superpower. Only child of a single dad, she'd learned to roll with almost any situation. The upside was very little ruffled her. The downside was very little ruffled her.

Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

Engineering isn't about perfect solutions; it's about doing the best you can with limited resources.

If you can find an opening, you can probably find a way to float through it.

All You Have Is What You Bring With You

When you go into the wilderness, the only thing you can count on is what you take with you.

Guys and their initiative - sometimes that too is like extracting meat from the armature of a crab.

I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

when life gives you lemons. Make yourself a screwdriver

You worked with what you had, you did what you could, and you made choices based on need.

It's always nice to have more than just two hands if you're making cakes.

You have two choices: You can take what you're given or build with what you've got. I choose to build with what I've got and try to make the best of it because I've still been given a stage. I've still got cameras in front of my face when I want them, and I plan to run with it.

We were basically camping my whole childhood because we were so poor.

My first playpen was a cardboard box.

For many impoverished people, living under a tarp or in a cardboard box is a way of life.

It's amazing: when you are challenged with less, sometimes you can produce more.

We grew up in west London, everyone was poor, and we bought our clothes from charity shops or from Portobello.

For the first year I lived in New York, I never ate out. I literally just ate lentils and brown rice at home. Sometimes I'd treat myself to this half chicken from Chinatown that cost $3.50.

I'm learning so much about my style just having access to so many things now. Growing up in Cincinnati, we really didn't have much money so it was really about places where you can go to get the most for the least.