Quotes About Resourcefulness

Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.

If poor people are spending their own money, it is amazing how fast they will figure out how to keep a lid on medical bills.

My dad used to hunt ducks, and my mom would put them in the pot. We lived really modestly. We had very little money.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

I'm going to get you a broken alarm clock so you'll get up in the morning.

I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.

I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose.

He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

Necessity is literally the mother of invention.

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word.

My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.

Necessity is often the mother of balls

my mother is a good mathematicianshe was able to divide 3 eggsinto 8 mouths equally every day

My mother had very humble beginnings - to put it mildly. Her dad built their home out of timber that he cut down on their land. No heat, no air-conditioning - 'no foolishness, ' as he would call it.

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening - she makes one.