Quotes About Resourcefulness

The truth is, "Do what you can with what you have, Because some people never go crazy.

Do what you can, with what you have, Life is about creating yourself.

What I need I carry in my head. Everything in that machine came from me. My fat burned into knowledge. My calories pedaled into data analysis -- The Calorie Man

Unfortunately we don't have all the bits and pieces on the car that we had hoped to have by this stage so we've got to make as good a job as we can with what we have and we feel we are doing well with that at the moment.

I try to keep the more uninteresting stuff to a minimum, unless I'm really broke.

Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever.

I think the universe was preparing me to be an actor. I never pursued one thing for long, but I was jack of all trades. I was learning everything possible because I knew my father would never shell out money for dresses or parties, but he would always give me money for new courses and books.

If you look at the story of 'The Get Down,' it's the story of young people, unknowns thrown together by their resources, trying to create something.

Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To be less than your best is a sin.

It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.

I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old.

A rag and a bone and a hank of hair.

Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.

When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from.

Before I had a steady job, I was broke, and I didn't have any money to buy anything, so I would illegally download stuff.

You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?

With 'Sweetback,' I just put it together a little bit at a time. I didn't do it on anybody's grant. I did it like any other young executive - by cheating and stealing!

Not being given everything encourages you to create... That was one of the first steps for me learning to invent things.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

What good does it do to have led in the old pencil when there's nothing to write on?