Quotes About Resourcefulness

Necessity starves on the stoop of invention.

I didn't grow up with money; I didn't come from a rich family. But what fashion gave me was an escape into a world of creativity: if I couldn't afford that Junior Gaultier jacket, then I'd get one from the market and customise it.

I don't need to spend money on school when I can just do it myself. I have pretty much everything I need with a camera and some funny friends.

I never get my hair done. I just do it myself.

I'm just kind of taking what I get and making the best out of it, honestly.

I was homeless for almost a year and a half, just living in my car or bouncing around peoples' houses, going to 7-Eleven at the end of the day and asking them for the taquitos that they were going to throw out because I hadn't eaten in two days.

If you're going to start a fire, why cook just one chicken?

Almost anything can be justified as a style of filmmaking if it works.

As much as innovation is important, I think we also need to just make stuff. If we look at Kenya, where I'm from, as an example, we are importing everything down to toothpicks.

When you grew up in a household where mom would keep the extra ketchup packets from McDonald's and keep them in a drawer just in case there came a day when you couldn't afford to buy ketchup anymore, that gets ingrained in you.

I hitchhiked to L.A. with $100 and a keyboard.

As kids, we were used to playing football with anything that we managed to kick and whenever we got a ball, it was a bonus.

I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.

I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.

Use your imagination. Look around the kitchen and see what you can use.

My kitchen is limited at best. I have one drawer. But I make do with what I have; it's taught me to be super efficient in terms of how I clean and how I put things away.

Thats what cooking is: youve got this certain ingredient and you figure out what to do it. You never waste anything in a professional kitchen. Its all revenue.

If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife.

You couldn't buy any English authors or anything that came from America, like jeans. It was impossible. So we had to do our own clothes if we had weird ideas like wearing long scarves like the French people did. You had to knit them yourself.

We'll set up a demo session and try to knock out eight or ten songs and make them sound as close as we can to a record with the money and time we have.

Fashion wasn't a label back in the '70s. We made our own clothes because we had no money.

I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles if I had to.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. —Abraham Maslow

Learn what you can; do what you can; get others to do for you what you can't. And fake it for all you're worth in the meantime.