Quotes About Resourcefulness

Information and survival will ultimately be the same thing.

They're not any smarter than they have to be and they're just as smart as they need to be.

I aint drinkin after no mule, said the hermit. Have you not got no old bucket nor nothin?

Why would we ever want to go back when your world is so accommodating with your telephones and your guns and what's that sticky stuff called ...duct tape.

Never underestimate the power of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor, as a foolish boy once

But sometimes it isn't the spells themselves that are important. It is the clever ways you use them.

But, luckily, he kept his wits and his purple crayon.

Make money! Make it! Out of nowhere. Wring it out of the thin air! The last feat to be humanly proud of!

When fate hands you lemons, make lemonade.

When he was a boy (Carnegie) back in Scotland, he got hold of a rabbit, a mother rabbit. Presto! He soon had a whole nest of little rabbits and nothing to feed them. But he had a brilliant idea. He told the boys and girls in the neighbourhood that if they would go out and pull enough clover and dandelions to feed the rabbits, he would name the bunnies in their honour. The plan worked like magic.

Now that she thought of it, why couldn't anyone do anything he or she wished, given the tools and the time?

When shown his office, he was asked what equipment he might need. "A desk or table, a chair, paper and pencils," he replied. "Oh yes, and a large wastebasket, so I can throw away all my mistakes.

use as few chips as possible, both as a personal challenge and because he did not want to take advantage of his colleague's largesse. Much of the work was done in the garage of a friend just around the corner, Bill Fernandez, who was still at Homestead High. To lubricate their efforts, they drank large amounts of Cragmont cream soda, riding their bikes to the Sunnyvale

where a party of untrained English Territorials tried to hold them with a barricade of cardboard boxes.

The two directions of thinking are the outward direction toward your material equipment which gives you your resources, and the inward direction toward your mental equipment, which gives you your resourcefulness.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Our basic principle is that if you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun. p217

In his other hand is a spear made from duct tape, a smashed Nokia phone from 1998 and a selfie stick. Welcome to the future.

Don't pole-vault over mouse truds - by the time you've discussed the many options available to you, the problem itself could have been long behind you had you simply disposed of those rodent droppings with a simple tissue and dumped them into the garbage!

Reduce what's in excess in your life and then offer it where it can be utilized.

Street people use cardboard all the time, and bum alleys are just shanties or lean-tos, though. They're nothing like my house! Mine is deluxe! It's a big, thick, super sturdy refrigerator box that I found at an appliance store!

Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years.

He said, "You are lucky to be traveling in a place where a spring is so handy. In my country you can ride for days and see no ground water. I have lapped filthy water from a hoofprint and was glad to have it. You don't know what discomfort is until you have nearly perished for water." Rooster said, "If I ever meet one of you Texas waddies that says he never drank from a horse track I think I will shake his hand and give him a Daniel Webster cigar.

I bought some crackers and a piece of hoop cheese and an apple at a grocery store and sat on a nail keg by the stove and had a cheap yet nourishing lunch. You know what they say, "Enough is as good as a feast.