Quotes About Resourcefulness

We don't all need to be geniuses; some of us just need to practical applicators and adapters.

Great, the worlds coming to an end and we're fixing it with Band-Aids

We didn't have money all the time to do laundry. A lot of the time, we didn't have soap or hot water. We were smart kids academically, but we'd go to school smelling.

I've used soap dishes as ashtrays in the best hotels in the world.

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

Guys back in the day, we didn't have wallets. I never kept my money in my pocket; my money always went in my sock. My key my mom gave me, I put it in my sock - whatever it was.

When I first started recording music, we would record in the closet with socks on the mic.

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.

Me and my brother lived in kind of a shed behind our house, and it was cold. We really lived kind of a dirty existence. It was tough to move away from my father and grandfather in California. I wore socks that were so dirty they were hard and black, and I would go into the lost and found box at school and look for clothes.

At heart, human beings are what we may call 'generalists,' who have the ability to adapt their internal 'software programs' to different habitats or situations.

When I was a lone soldier I didn't have a penny with me. Everybody was eating hummus with tehina and ate falafel, and I couldn't buy it. I was a little hungry, but I managed.

You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.

When your hands are cold, and you're hitting with old, low-quality irons - my first one was a Merlin model with a green shaft - you learn what to do to hit the ball solid.

I want to build a machine that can drill wells for water. With this problem of water in many places in Africa, we need to find a solution for how you can dig wells so you can be pumping water from deeper places.

I see a problem and I invent some sort of solution to it.

I am interested in finding solutions to problems.

Entrepreneurs, by their nature, see not only problems but solutions and opportunities.

If you want things done, you need to be able to find solutions.

I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity.

It's rare that you can solve a technology problem with more technology.

My mom was a problem solver.

The girls in my books are out solving their own problems.

If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice.

If I had to live on a desert island, and somebody gave me a chicken, there's no way I'd kill it - I'd call it Henry and make it my friend.