Quotes About Resourcefulness

This sounded to me like a three-cocktail problem and there I was without so much as an olive!

Thanks," said Walter. "My dad's an engineer. He knows how to take wacky ideas and actually make them work.

The measure of their personal greatness is less what they found at journey's end and more the depth of human character that carried them along the way: their imagination, will, perseverance, courage, resourcefulness, and willingness to bear the risk of failure.

Los héroes sacan oro de lo que tienen a mano en lugar de esperar a tener en la mano oportunidades de oro.

Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out.

I do what I can do when I can do it.

So from here on out, we need to find a way to fight the killer with brains, not brawn. Attack this problem like scientists, not... Dirty Harry.

she hadn't just lost everything. After all, she had her health (which was actually saying quite a lot for a second grade teacher during flu season) and she had relative youth, though she was on the downhill slide to thirty. But she no longer had her luggage and she didn't have her purse. Meaning she had no clothes, no shoes, no undies, no toiletries, no ID, no credit card, not even a ChapStick. She glanced down at her

be totaled; we can't afford a new one.

Know, if not admit to it, that at the end of some days a single mother's most important tool is her corkscrew. THE WORDS When my marriage fell apart, the situation entailed a whole new lexicon, in some cases a new spin on old words.

Necessity is the motherfucker of invention.

Humans, it seemed, were like cockroaches. Determined enough, they could thrive anywhere.

There are times when visible poverty has its advantages.

It's hard to find a woman without tactics. That'll be why I made one up.

having grown up with the mantra of, 'if you're cold, put another jumper on until your arms can no longer touch your sides',

I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

They [wood stumps] warmed me twice—once while I was splitting them, and again when they were on the fire.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

The ability to know how to get the information is more important than using the mind as a garage of facts.

Buying ahead of requirements does not pay. Any wins are negated later down the line.