Quotes About Resourcefulness

The way I see it, the truth is just barren moorland, all useless bog and heather. It's only when you break it up and turn it over with the ploughshare of the Good Lie that you can screw a livelihood out of it. Isn't that what humans do? They take a dead landscape and reshape it into what they need, and want, and can use. I've never hesitated to adapt the world to suit me, when I can get away with it.

master of alternatives, the eternal custodian of Plan B;

What the books don't tell you is, there's a sixteenth way. You can use it when you've got nothing; no stuff, no men and nobody to lead them.

Why run around offering water? There's a sea in every house. If anyone is thirsty, by hook or crook, he'll drink.

Other girls carried tasers or pepper spray for safety. Rosa had bought herself a stapler in a hardware store on the corner of Baltic and Clinton Streets. Her thinking was simple. An electric shock is nasty but leaves no marks. With her method, though, she could put two or three staples into any attacker's body. Then he'd have to stop and decide whether to tangle with her or start getting the staples out of his skin.

You'll think of something,", FADE by Kailin Gow

Violetta: Didn't you even run any tests? Tarvek: With what?! I came in here in a bedsheet!

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information.

People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won't come out right.

That's one of the advantages of being an inventor and tinkerer - I have everything I need to make what I need.

If you set your story in Rome, Ireland or Sheboygan, for that matter, go there. If you're broke, set it in the town where you live, or where you grew up.

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

My father raised me to build computers, hardware. Literally, as an 8 year old, I had a soldering iron and circuit boards, and this was in neighbourhoods that wouldn't have a whole lot of money or anything. And I figured out ways to just hustle.

Somehow you get past languages. I don't speak Mandarin. I don't speak fluent Italian. I don't speak German. But it's amazing how when you need to get something done, it finds a way.

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

I never had to ask Def Jam for anything.

Saw' was a film that James Wan and I came up with back in Australia and we were just hoping anyone, literally, anyone would make that film and if nobody would give us the money we were going to shoot it in a garage somewhere.

People have got to learn: if they don't have cookies in the cookie jar, they can't eat cookies.

Louis CK knows that just because a joke is using space as a resource instead of something to be crammed like a hamper, this doesn't mean a story isn't happening.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

Thrift was never more necessary in the world's history than it is today.