Quotes About Resourcefulness

Something else that separates me from society: Super-Positive Perspective! Where normal people would whine about subpar accommodations, I choose to view it as upscale camping.

Americans tend to overanalyze. Like during the space race, NASA spent fifty thousand dollars developing a zero-gravity pen that didn't skip. Know what the Russians did? Pencil. Think about

I liked how the coyote could get whatever he wanted from the Acme company," said Coleman. "That was the best part," said Serge. "Anvils, foot springs, hot-air balloons, giant magnets .

I will always find my light. No question. And if I don't, I'll know, because my dad will be the first person to call me and say, like, 'You need to have him bring another 2K in,' and 'Why aren't you using this sort of lighting gel?' The crew guys know that it's where I grew up.

There is no reason why excellent pictures can't be made for $4-5 million.

When there is no work, I create my own.

I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.

I'm a really good cook. I left home to start my career at 15 - so my choices were to either learn to cook or eat Ramen noodles for the rest of my life.

Normally, I can get through a whole show with one guitar pick.

I try not to shoot unnecessarily or spend on extra expenses that normally happen on a film set - like actors' fees.

When I was a young lad just out of college at the North Carolina School of the Arts, I directed several plays that I wrote. It was essential theater, meaning we had no money, so our set may be six stools and two chairs and eight cream pies.

I'm not perfect, I'm not brilliant at everything, I just try my best and I enjoy crafting. If I have something old or broken and I can use it for something else, I get a real joy out of it.

My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.

I would eat fruitcake if there'd been a nuclear war and I'd run out of canned goods.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

On one occasion I had to sleep on a stretcher balanced on two kitchen chairs. It wasn't glamorous.

Oh, don't worry about that, said the Mathemagician as he scooped up the pieces. We use the broken ones for fractions.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and it holds the world together.

had once managed in half a day to replace the entire engine on a 1995 Mercedes with one from some old wreck, doing such a flawless job that the returning owner left the valet an especially large tip for having cleaned the car for him.

What would you do, if you were besieged in a place entirely destitute of provisions? As long as there was anything to eat in the enemy's camp, answered Napoleon, "I should not be at all concerned. A will finds a way.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

To a man with only a hammer, a screw is a defective nail.

You cannot absorb losses!" Mazer shouted at him after one battle. "When you get into a real battle you won't have the luxury of an infinite supply of computer-generated fighters. You'll have what you brought with you and nothing more. Now get used to fighting without unnecessary waste.

he who will not economize will have to agonize