Quotes About Resourcefulness

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

His wits were coming back to him, however slowly. That was good. His wits were all he had.

My brother has his sword, and I have my mind... ?Tyrion Lannister

didn't have a gun myself. I never do. Guns are a crutch for those who aren't in good enough shape to run. I did have my Swiss Army knife, but that was just in case I needed a compact burglary tool.

On the twenty-sixth day of the fifteen-day march, the last of the vegetables was consumed. On the thirty-second day, the last of the grain and fodder. Asha wondered how long a man could live on raw, half-frozen horse meat.

The biggest toms would seldom win, she noticed; oft as not, the prize went to some smaller, quicker animal, thin and mean and hungry.

Common boys fight with wooden swords too, only theirs are sticks and broken branches.

In the deep sands a man must hoard his water.

He could help you, He can do sums, and he knows how to read and write. I know Chett can't read, and Clydas has weak eyes. Sam read every book in his father's library. He'd be good with the ravens too. Animals seem to like him. Ghost took to him straight off. There's a lot he could do, besides fighting. The Night's Watch needs every man. Why kill one, to no end? Make use of him instead.

You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean tin is useless.

Only man stripped the skins from other beasts and wore their hides and hair.

Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.

With these skills, you can go for years without ever meeting a situation where you have to defend yourself.

Do not limit your planning horizon to what can be accomplished with existing tools. If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything will look like a nail.

The best computer programmers never write a new program when they can use an old one for a new job.

Want, the mistress of invention.

If the mountain won't come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain.

The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.

Economy is the thief of time.

God forgives those who invent what they need.

Men do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone.