Quotes About Resourcefulness

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

If a man want cook, he hire one, nah? Or do it himself, if he have a mind.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, they can't find them, MAKE THEM.   —George Bernard Shaw

If life hands you lemons... make lemonade. Then... try to find someone to whom life has handed vodka...

Give a nerd enough time and a door he can close and he can figure out pretty much anything.

The situation wasn't ideal. But it was what she had to work with, so she would work with it. She was a tough one,

She was used to doing a lot with a little. Now that she had a lot, she was going to work wonders with it. And she did.

Give a nerd enough time and a door he can close and he can figure out pretty much anything. "But

Wallace and Gromit's contraptions are created purely for gags, but we all have the urge to invent - especially children. If they're bored, kids will make something from cardboard boxes, yoghurt pots, tape and elastic bands. Often, those constructions are the best.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

I tend to kind of try to use what's in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don't already have.

Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.

The Chinese use every spare bit of an animal: cow lungs, pig ears, chicken feet, duck blood.

I used to do most of my composing at a little table in a cafe. Composing for 52 instruments, I had to figure out how to accommodate myself to the small table.

Drones can be useful tools, and I am all about useful tools. One of my mottos is 'the right tool for the right job.'

We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.

I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.

Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent.

Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.