Quotes About Resourcefulness

Tigris had said to trust her, and he did. Only his cousin's cleverness with a needle had saved him so far. Still,

Hey, Catnip," says Gale. My real name is Katniss, but when I first told him, I had barely whispered it. So he thought I'd said Catnip. Then when this crazy lynx started following me around the woods looking for handouts, it became his official nickname for me. I finally had to kill the lynx because he scared off game. I almost regretted it because he wasn't bad company. But I got a decent price for his pelt.

Then make one," says Gale. "Even a weak bow is better than no bow at all.

We won't go far. We'll use our own bows. You can have the meat for the kitchen," adds Gale.

Peeta. How Foxface stole the food from the supply pile before I blew it up, how she tried to take enough to stay alive but not enough that anyone would notice it, how she wouldn't

We learn to keep busy again. Peeta bakes. I hunt.

As if in the end, it will be the question of whether a baker or a hunter will extend my longevity the most.

Once it's in the soup, I'll call it beef," Greasy Sae says with a wink.

swing my legs off the bed and slide into my hunting boots. Supple leather that has molded to my feet. I pull on trousers, a shirt, tuck my long dark braid up into a cap, and

Mientras puedas encontrarte, no te morirás de hambre».

Small, bluish tubers that don't look like much but boiled or baked are as good as any potato. "Katniss," I said aloud. It's the plant I was named for. And I heard my father's voice joking, "As long as you can find yourself, you'll never starve.

As soon as I'm in the trees, I retrieve a bow and sheath of arrows from a hollow log.

Anyone can be bored or unfulfilled at virtually any job. How one chooses to respond to boredom is key. Most women are resourceful: when faced with boredom, they find a way out. That's an essential skill. Those who don't have it will suffer, to be sure, but that is not society's problem.

It seems kind of nutty to send up something new when there's something already there that can do the job.

Sometimes big problems are best solved with lots of small and creative solutions.

Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always have a sense of humour.

Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this film became the essence of this film, became the power of this film.

I do not live off canned soup.

I lived on oatmeal soup and apples. Nourishing enough.

If you don't own traditional dumbbells, you can also use soup cans or bottles of water.

Environmental protection and economic development are not in conflict. Environmental protection is not a burden but a source for innovation. It can increase competition, create jobs, and lifts the economy.

The number of people who really work creatively on new sources of water isn't enormously large for the reason that I don't think people have very many ideas on how to get fundamentally new sources of water. We sort of think we've thought that problem through. I hope that's not true.

If you are going to do a film about the South Pole, the chances are that you will film it in Hawaii! Whatever is most difficult, you will get to do it.

When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.