Quotes About Resourcefulness

He'd pull a door off its hinges rather than work out how to turn a key.

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water." —W. C. FIELDS

I was quick to learn the tricks of the trade, the most important being: when you run into an unsolvable problem, use grease liberally; it opens all doors.

Passengers in need of toilet facilities were forced to use slop buckets that soon spilled over and added to the general miasma below or to climb into the "beak"—all the way forward beneath the bowsprit—where they would perch precariously on a seat to relieve themselves as the vessel rolled with the waves and then clean themselves using a length of rope that hung from the bowsprit so that it trailed in the ocean below.

He kept thinking about Uncle Austin, how he taught him to build a fire in the rain, to sharpen a knife, to regard ten cords of wood as money in the bank, to read the wind and tides with intention, to catch a fish, to build a snare, to live off the land and sea and not just survive, but thrive; to know a thousand things with animal senses—to be smart, strong, sensual, alive, more alive than you'll ever be indoors.

But merian, so often able to slide by the rules somehow, held on to her specialised tools: her book of notes, her paints, her expensive vellum--carta non nata, skin from unborn lambs, that held the color like nothing else. She brought her mixing materials and pigments.

The Swiss Family Robinson.

Who recalls when folks got along without something if it cost too much?

If you're lookin' for a helpin' hand, try the one at the end of your arm.

Cookie didn't dare light a fire, so we have cold food this evening. (Morgan) Yum. Hard-boiled wood, my favorite. (Serenity)

As media strategist Tom Goodwin wrote in a TechCrunch article in March 2015: "Uber, the world's largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. Facebook, the world's most popular media owner, creates no content. Alibaba, the most valuable retailer, has no inventory. And Airbnb, the world's largest accommodation provider, owns no real estate."9

proudly living in a refrigerator-sized apartment with three other students.

The cat is the only animal without visible means of support who still manages to find a living in the city.

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

Success is all about who you know and what you make of the opportunity.

She is dressed in the nicest of her purloined finery – an ivory satin gown, which she has painstakingly taken in at the seams, its original owner having had a tad more hip, and a tad less hooray than its current one.

People will do and think whatever it is they have to in order to survive.

Pioneer children were always having mishaps, but they were expected to know how to use their heads in emergencies.

As Little Crow had said, 'When men are hungry, they help themselves.

Luckily for you," he said, "you shed hairpins the way Hansel and Gretel shed crumbs. I followed your trail." He pressed a half dozen hairpins into the palm of my left hand. "Now let us return to light, safety, and society.

Not many girls would have used their wits the way you did," the officer observed.

What is the use of having an imagination if you can't make it work for you?

Will rolled up his sleeves. "We'll probably have to knock down the door--" "Or," said Jem, reaching out and giving the knob a twist, "not." The door swung open onto a rectangle of darkness. "Now, that's simply laziness," said Will.

By no means run in debt: take thine own measure.Who cannot live on twenty pound a year,Cannot on forty.