Quotes About Resourcefulness

I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me.

Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.

My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.

Why should we plant, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?

If you hide honey in the dark, bees will still find it.

If you can't climb a tree, shake it, and its fruit will fall.

The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fattest one.

A spider is slow, but its web catches the fastest flies.

A sharp stick is better than a blunt sword.

It is possible to draw a straight line with a crooked pencil.

You cannot force a dry well to yield water.

Use what you have or risk losing it.

Your mental problem becomes a solution when it can be used to solve problems.

I endeavor to make the most of everything.

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint.

I can take on the world with a glue gun and a can of spray paint!

I've done everything. Selling door-to-door fire extinguishers... In bars, I used to repair those machines that have 10 different buttons on them to spray club soda and seltzer.

We didn't do a square ball in 'Pong' because we thought it was cool. We did it because that was all we could do.

That's John Constantine. You put him in a corner, and you squeeze him, and he'll find his way out. There's something in him - he's a great escape artist.

The nice thing about Squirrel Girl is that she's smart, and she looks for situations that don't necessarily involve punching people all the time.

My parents scrimped and saved all their lives, to the point where my mother used a disgusting old oven mitt that was stained and partly patched together with a skirt I made in seventh grade.

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.