Quotes About Resourcefulness

Often, people who want to make interesting films simply don't have the money to do it.

I want you to be a connoisseur of great questions? Here's one - what would we do if we had no money?

I'm not wanting and I don't live in a hovel, but if you keep your costs low, you can do what you want to do creatively.

People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.

Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.

I tell people if I want to make a film I just go make it so you can make yours.

What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They're allowed to think.

He did what he could, and that was more than enough.

Every schoolboy knows that the Indians used every part of the buffalo, which is true. But they did not use every part of every buffalo.

Indians only needed so many implements and decorations. If a tribe drove three hundred buffalo over a cliff, they wouldn't feel obligated to make twenty-four hundred buffalo-hoof spoons and six hundred buffalo-horn charcoal carriers. Rather, they might just take the meat and hides from the best-looking female buffalo, those that weren't too smashed up or buried under other buffalo. That might be all they touched. After all, their time and energy had value, just as ours does.

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

few less smart-aleck attorneys and a few more Henry Fords, and the world would have less troubles and more to eat." Ford, added another small-town paper, "comes nearer being typical of the average, energetic, courageous, honest, uncultured American than any other one man in this country….

I made wine out of raisins so I would not have to wait for it to age.

The early bird may get the worm, but it's the second mouse who gets the cheese.

I once locked my keys out of my car. I had to break out of my car with a coat hanger.

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

We have to make good use of the tools that fall in our lap, no matter how sharp they seem to our clumsy fingers.

Humans had to make do with what they could.

We should havest our sustenance, not beg for it!

You're here mainly because I hate to see waste. I like to create. I like to repair.

They were the poorest, grubbiest people I had even seen, and yet, despite their obvious poverty, they were not at all melancholy or apathetic. They burgeoned like a colony of ants in the gargantuan skeleton of the past, shifting rubbish, recycling everything, conjuring a new art from the bones.

I justified these pants every weekend with the reinforcing thought that one can never have enough extra pockets, just in case.

But in a fit of inspiration he'd fashioned a balaclava from a Tesco carrier bag – the handles tied beneath his chin.

razor blades and shoe laces.