Quotes About Resourcefulness

Oftentimes, even as a little kid, I would get up before anyone else. My brother would still be sleeping, my mom would still be sleeping, so I would literally play 'Monopoly' by myself. I would play board games; I would do things by myself.

I lived for two years with six girls in an apartment that was built for three people, and it had no heat. We would sleep in our coats and in sleeping bags. And it was great.

I mean, in A ball, there were five of us in a two-bedroom apartment. In Double-A, I think there were like eight of us in a four-bedroom house. There's a lot of that going on so that guys can... and the whole time, you're sleeping on air mattresses and you're using Rubbermaid bins as furniture.

Always know I have something up my sleeve.

Growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry. But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet.

I skied on Astroturf and PVC pipe on the slope in my backyard.

I grew up in Alabama in a very small town and didn't have access to the finest of anything, really. But my mother was the kind of woman who just wanted us, me and my sisters, to be exposed to any and anything she could find.

There's not a lot to do in a small town, but i grew up on a cattle farm... some people would say there's nothing to do on a cattle farm, but I'd say there's everything to do.

I'd be absolutely happy to go back and make a smaller picture. I never want my choices to be dictated by budget. That's one of the reasons why I take so much pride in being able to make films for $2 and a paper clip - because I can always get my hands on $2 and a paper clip. I never have to ask for permission for that.

If you can't hire someone smarter than you, do it yourself.

One of the smartest things you can do on 'Chopped' is to take one of those ingredients and make a pickle out of it, because almost every dish benefits from that. I'm feeling like those intuitions are becoming more natural.

I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.

I'm not a snob. I can make a meal out of anything. I can eat anywhere.

I used to mow grass and sell Christmas cards and shovel snow in order to raise the $25 to go to Boy Scout Camp in Osceola every year.

We hid from the Nazis in the mountains. Sometimes there was nothing to eat but snow.

away, and she could carry a bag on each arm, providing

Anyway, when sophisticated technology fails, primitive technology steps in to do the job.

we can't keep it going if too much of what we need is taken away from us.

So what if I had to eat out of dustbins? At least it was an honest living.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door

When opportunity doesn't knock, create a door

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

I would love for film to go back to those days where you had to be able to do everything just to get by.

Arrakis is ours because we have taken it," Selim announced. "We have learned to survive under the harshest circumstances, without depending upon the benevolence of strangers or trade with offworld intruders.