Quotes About Resourcefulness

Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in.

Kids who have no money are still figuring out a way - somehow - to dress nicely.

Let us not underestimate the ingenuity of the poor people in converting what they get from the relief worker to what they want. And that's just wasteful. They would be far better off if we just gave them the money and let them spend it.

A deckhand, a haircutter, and a cook. Really useful out here.

Think and plan independently of traditional methods. Know that there is always an answer and a solution to every problem.

You could say I'm a cat with nine lives. As long as there's mice to catch, I intend to keep hunting.

Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

The time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

If life hands you a lemon, don't complain, but instead make lemonade to sell those who are thirsty from complaining.

Traveling across Australia, Asia, and Africa, he searched for people with little contact with the West who he could examine. Porteus found that the so-called Bushmen of the Kalahari scored a mental age of seven. Yet his subjects were navigating their way through Porteus's printed mazes in the middle of a vast desert that they could navigate without a map, finding all the food and shelter they required.

One wood mouse can nibble a large hole.

When conditions allowed, he ordered fires lit to dry his men's sodden gear.

The only thing that held it together the previous summer was baling wire, cheap used parts, and cussin' that would fry the hair out of a frog's nostrils.

She watered her pepper plants with the water she used to rinse out her unmentionables....

When life gives you lemons, make chocolate chip cookies and make the whole world wonder what you've been up to.

What a time for the bulb to got Wait here. I'll get one from the kitchen." As

But if there isn't a right way to do things you have to invent one.

we didn't have any blankets and

I had always suspected that one could build an entire house from what went into the landfill, and, sure enough, it's true.

I lived for a little while in a place where the kitchen was a cupboard on the landing.

I am terrible at memorizing things. Hence, ad-libbing.

African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.

The cat with gloves catches no mice.

You can't feed a cat with cream and food in the kitchen and expect him to go catch mice.