Quotes About Resourcefulness

We've been told that Henry Ford never fired employees but shifted them around until he found the niche that was right for them. A

Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could.

The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.

Only the poor can create art.

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter

When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

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, if they can't find them, make them. -George Bernard Shaw

With such a small brain, I don't know how you made it this far.

Sir," James asked, "what are we going to do?" "We're going to look for water," said Alf. "And food?" said Tubby Ted. "Water first," said Alf. "We can go days without food." "We can what?" Tubby Ted shouted.

We had traveled 4200 miles or whatever and thus were obligated to create something. We had to take the available materials and make something worthy.

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, if they can't find them, make them. —George Bernard Shaw

At any point in time, the first thing to consider is, what could you possibly do, where you are, with the tools you have?

Necessity is a mother.

Some species are so disdainful of brains that they treat them as an expendable luxury. There are species of sea slugs that have mini-brains when they are young. They use them as they voyage through the seas looking for a perch from which they can sieve food. But once they've found their perch they no longer need such an expensive piece of equipment, so they eat their brains. Some have joked, cruelly, that this is a bit like tenured academics.

Any place is grand, long as you got the old do-re-mi in the grouch bag

Not so, neither: but if I had wit enough to get out of this wood, I have enough to serve mine own turn.

God can use the jawbone of an ass!

Now that we have run out of money we have to think.

Goodness is helpless without wits

Yes, but I wasn't running around asking other people how to do it.

Well-Trained Personnel Always Come Through in a Pinch