Quotes About Resourcefulness

Il bisogno aguzza l'ingegno.

Don't waste your time wishing for things you don't have. Do your best with what you do have.

My dad grew up with straight-up no running water. He slept in a twin bed with his two sisters and his mom, like 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' style: like, feet at the head, feet at the head alternating. And then I think his dad slept on, like, a bed of newspapers on a floor in their apartment.

When I first moved to L.A., I didn't have a lot of money to join a gym or take classes, so I improvised. My sister and I went to the library and looked over their DVD collection and discovered Neena and Veena, these Egyptian twins who have a whole series of belly dancing routines. We did them all.

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

This could be done in part, because the equipment was very inexpensive. Not much money was involved in tooling so that basic changes of that type could be accomplished.

The A's were a team with very few resources. We didn't have access to players who were obviously great, who could do it all and were always in the headlines. We couldn't afford those types of players. So we had to figure out a way of cobbling together players into a team that might be competitive.

Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That's kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.

Guns make you stupidbetter to fight your wars with duct tape. Duct tape makes you smart.

Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.

Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks.

It's no good crying over spilt milk; all we can do is bail up another cow

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

Do your best with what you have where you are.

Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm

It won't kill you to wear that same pair of socks one more day.

Work is for people who don't know how to fish.