Quotes About Resourcefulness

When you sail on a boat you take with you the minimum of resources. You don't waste anything. You don't leave the light on; you don't leave a computer screen on... on land we take what we want

We don't have a monopoly. Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes bit can always use a pick and shovel.

You got to use what you got to get just what you want.

Do what you want, do what you need to get done. Find a way to do it.

One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, to another-and especially yourself-I Can't, take a deep breath and say instead, My resources are otherwise engaged.

Wow. Pioneers with ice-cream." Joshua felt motivated to defend his home. "Well, it doesn't have to be like the Donner Party, Sally-

Remove the rock from your shoe rather than learn to limp comfortably.

This is the part in the movie where Jade's supposed to rally, she knows. She's not supposed to mope, she's supposed to be gearing up, pouring black powder into lightbulbs, hammering nails into the business end of a bat, that kind of stuff.

A second later, a third knife sticks into the doorframe, the two sides of its handle calving off as well, tapping into the hardwood floor one by one, like they tried to hold on, they really did, but… they're just from the dollar store, come on, this is all they could manage.

Well, then we shall live by the cottontails and porcupines. We know how. There are many more of those than they or their wagsi can catch or starve. They can get rid of us only if they destroy our homes, fill up our springs, and fence the earth against our return. The earth will always have a way to care for us.

Ultimately, the only techniques that can help us are those we invent ourselves.

Over and over again, we see that when anyone willingly gives whatever resources they have to Him—whether it is nothing more than five smooth stones gathered from a dry streambed or five little loaves of bread and two dried sprats—then God's greater purpose can proceed. Small and insignificant? Undoubtedly. But on the day of decision, everything depended on those five smooth stones—with them, David killed Goliath and saved a nation.

She [Mérian] shook her head sadly. 'What Bran wants is impossible.' 'Well,' I [Will] said, 'I wouldn't be too sure. I have seen the lone canny fox outwit the hunter often enough to know that it matters little how many horses and men you have. All the wealth and weapons in the world will not catch the fox that refuses to be caught.

If you cannot get a job then make a living for yourself.

Wise, seeing that his well was ruined, made the best of a bad bargain. He arranged to take over the job for a dollar a body, and before the day was out had filled his well, sealed it, and earned himself sixty dollars.

A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could have only one book, what would it be? I always say, "How to Build a Boat.

Commit to not going back to the store no matter what. If you run out of something like a spice or an accompanying vegetable, substitute with something else.

Okay, here's the tough part, but we know you can do it. If you run out of an ingredient or forget an item, substitute it with something else, borrow it from a neighbor, or make a different meal—just don't go back to the store. You can do it—it may take some time to perfect your system, but eventually it will be as easy as breathing.

Sometimes, when I couldn't afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light of the stories themselves.

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. —Josh Billings

We ended up all living in a one-bedroom apartment that cost $80 a month and sleeping on the floor. My jacket was my first pillow. We really had nothing at all.