Quotes About Resourcefulness

One of his mechanics who despaired when he could not get spare parts for the tanks once announced casually that most of them were ordinary parts he used to order from Sears, Roebuck. Patton seized upon the remark. When it proved impossible to obtain the parts through regular channels—partly because of the red tape and partly because the Army simply did not have any at that stage—he ordered them from Sears, Roebuck and paid the bill out of his own pocket.

When Philip of Macedonia, the father of Alexander the Great, was told that a certain city in his army's path was impregnable, he asked: "Is there not a pathway to it wide enough for an ass laden with gold?" It was the fate of Vidkun Quisling to be nothing but an ass.

The elders teach us: be a trickster, and you will survive.

If this were a book or movie, she thought, she'd be able to read the stars and get her bearings. Characters always had just the right random skill set to master the situation at hand. Like, Thank god for that summer on an uncle's smuggling boat and the handsome deckhand who taught me celestial navigation. Ha.

She didn't need a Taser; she was more than capable of defending herself without electricity. She'd had an unusual education.

Tools?" scoffed Kalisti, "Tools are for people who have nothing better to do than think things through and make sensible plans.

Any luck?" Lazlo asked her when he saw her coming back from a test at the anchor. "Luck has nothing to do with it," she replied. "It's all strength and cleverness." She winked, flexing her hands like five-legged spiders. "And glue.

The women's way was more effective. They might be ignored, abused, or dominated, but in the end the women were more practical, keeping their eye on whatever prize was within their grasp.

We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.

Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers; we get Aquatruck.

Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.

the less you had, the more careful you had to be about everything you did have.

Robbie turned to the house again. "Got a flashlight?" "Of course not." I smirked. "That would make me too well prepared, wouldn't it?

Henry jerked up his left suspender and raked his hand through his hair, looking at the hole Rachel had shot in the puncheon. "What in hell you gonna tell people happened to your floor, missy?" Rachel smiled. "Why, I'll tell them how quick you got in and fixed it, Henry. We can't have holes in the floor, can we?

Only a White Eyes would walk when she had a perfectly good horse to ride.

I could eat a boot, I think, if it were well boiled, with perhaps a dash of salt for flavoring.

It's Survival of Them Who's Best at Nicking Things, girl!

Necessity teaches all things

The garden is the poor man's apothecary.

Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.

My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.

The world is not short of whatever you are seeking. If you fail to get it, you may have refused to master the art of getting it.

En guerra o en paz, lo apropiado es sacar partido de las circunstancias