Quotes About Resourcefulness

People had figured it out once, she thought. They could figure it out again.

It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.

Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age was how to get things done, and this was a source of both amazement and concern for Mom, who considered my behavior unladylike but also counted on me. I never knew a girl to have such gumption, she'd say. But I'm not too sure it's a good thing.

She knew how to get by on next to nothing.

You know you're down and out when Okies laugh at you,' she said. With our garbage bag taped window, our tied down hood, and art supplies strapped to the roof, we'd out-Okied the Okies.

Sue scraped the meat into a bowl, mixed it with mayonnaise and Cheez Whiz, then crushed a handful of potato chips and added them. She spread the mixture onto two slices of Wonder bread, then rolled each slice into a cylinder and passed

Genius is not a gift, but the way a person invents in desperate circumstances.

Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.

In a pinch, I could always get work in pictures as a makeup artist.

Work as smart as you are able.

Dimitri: "They weren't supposed to let you in."Rose: "Yeah. Well, I kind of found a work-around."Dimitri: "Of course you did."- Dimitri Belikov and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)

To make three guineas do the work of five.

The right man can make a good job out of any job.

There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today... and will come around for me tomorrow.

Creativity is energy being put to work in a constructive fashion.

I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.

We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work.

One person with the ability of half a person doing the work of four people.

I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

No one can help you if you're stuck in a work. Only you can figure a way out, because only you can see the work's possibilities.

You work with what you got.

You don't have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don't need a giant crew. It's great.

When you can take something that is a reject at the thrift store sitting on the bottom of a pile of junk and make it work, make it look interesting, that's real style to me.

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.