Quotes About Resourcefulness

Where I grew up, there was a mysticism and creativity to everything. Everyone made things with their hands.

I named the company Kenneth Cole because I didn't have a lot of time to make up a name.

I'll teach you how to roll a cigarette while we're waiting. A man's got to learn that or he won't never have no way of knowing how good a store-bought is.

That frying pan is looking better and better to me," she muttered under her breath. "I think we're going to have to hang one on the wall in every room, both here and at the clubhouse

How do you manage to turn everything to your advantage?" His hand found the bare skin of her satin-smooth thigh, reveling in all that warm heat. "I do not know the answer to that, little one. Perhaps it is sheer talent.

The one benefit of maturity is discovering just how crafty you can be.

In order to hold off the Forces of Darkness, you will need a number two pencil and a calendar, preferably one without pictures of kitties on it.

Sometimes this high-tech world calls for low-tech solutions.

If I live through this, she thought, I'm going to save a fortune on utilities.

The warrior who can adapt the easiest to the unexpected is the warrior who will live the longest.

Hui Shi was set on using the calabash to hold water, never thinking that he could use water to hold the calabash.

When I reached Grand Gulf May 3d I had not been with my baggage since the 27th of April and consequently had had no change of underclothing, no meal except such as I could pick up sometimes at other headquarters, and no tent to cover me. The first thing I did was to get a bath, borrow some fresh underclothing from one of the naval officers and get a good meal on the flag-ship.

From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola

Other kids—blind date with someone's brother. Me? A blind date with a wrench.

We take the staples of modern life so much for granted until we're deprived of them. People do live quite well without what we consider to be basics, but they manage because they've never been de-skilled by their presence. To lose them when you've lived all your life with power at the touch of a switch and water at the turn of a tap is shocking, then unsettling, then grindingly depressing.

È stupefacente come quelle bestie riutilizzassero ogni cosa - cuoio, carta, stoffa, tutto ciò che era servito agli esseri umani serviva, tornava utile anche alle bestie. Solo la cosa più preziosa al mondo - la vita - veniva calpestata.

the migrating bands in these times preserved hot coals in hardened mooseskin sacks or birchbark containers filled with ash in which the embers pulsated, ready to spark the next campfire.

Bestow on an individual the useless and deprive him of the necessary, and you have the gamin.

If there is no sun,one must be made

You'd be surprised at what I can do.

This is like my dad's race team where we had one Legend car. If we wrecked it, we couldn't race the next week unless we had enough parts to put it back together again.

Once you carry your own water you will know the value of every drop.

Knowledge may be power, but it is not resilience, or resourcefulness, or adaptability to life, still less is it instinctive sympathy with human nature;

To be a great man one should know how to profit by every phase of fortune.