Quotes About Resourcefulness

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.' I'll improvise.

At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.

Si ella puede hacer canastos con las patas, tú puedes tocar la guitarra sin dedos.

maestro, an honorary title equivalent to licenciado, our designation for almost anyone who has graduated from college. With pliers and some wire, this fellow can fix anything from a lavatory to an airplane turbine: his creativity and daring are boundless.

My grandfather was an exception among Chileans because no man from the middle class up knows how to decipher a manual, nor does he dirty his hands with motor oil—that's what maestros are for; they can improvise ingenious solutions with the most modest resources and a minimum of fuss.

I produce some of my music videos on a $200 budget. But I produce most of my videos on zero budget. I have a studio in my apartment - which is actually just a green screen I have tacked on my wall and some lamps to light everything.

We made 'Pieces' in Cleveland with zero connections to the film business. Absolutely zero.

You get really scrappy when you're making things for zero dollars, and you just have to keep thinking like that. It's not like, 'Oh, we now have a little bit more money, let's do things differently.' If you just keep boiling it down to the simplest possible way to make it, I think that always ends up being the best.

Zero budget filmmaking is frustrating but also liberating.

I grew up in Zimbabwe and we didn't have much. My dad worked away for the whole week as an engineer, came back on Friday with his pay and gave the rent money to my mum. He'd put aside money for food and stuff and he'd keep the rest. That's how Africans lived, but there was enough to go around.

In a zombie apocalypse, I expect insane things to happen.

I like to think that I could survive should the apocalypse or zombies show up.

A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.

The individual who is best prepared for any occupation is the one ... able to adapt himself to any situation.

Make a virtue of necessity.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

From a fallen tree, all make kindling.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune, for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.

As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.

Better halfe a loafe than no bread.

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

Always take an emergency leisurely.