Quotes About Resourcefulness

Mortimer had maxed three credit cards stocking the cave with canned goods and medical supplies and tools and everything a man needed to live through the end of the world. There were more than a thousand books along shelves in the driest part of the cave. There used to be several boxes of pornography until Mortimer realized that he'd spent nearly ten days in a row sitting in the cave masturbating. He burned the dirty magazines to keep from doing some terrible whacking injury to himself.

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

I feel like Odysseus in Polyphemus's cave: "You will I eat last." To this Blumenfeld remarked on the telephone with a comforting quick wit: But Odysseus was not eaten, and it was Polyphemus who came to a bad end. […]

Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.

I do the best with what exists.

Superglue after duct tape a girl's best friend.

My best travelling experience lasted several years: between 1971 and 1974 when I bummed around the East. All I had with me was a cooking pot, a stove, a map and blankets and a couple of dhotis.

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

If all else fails, I could go to a train station and open up my saxophone case and make some bucks. I can do "Mary Had A Little Lamb," I can do "Happy Birthday."

If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.

When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

Creativity comes from constraint.

Creativity is the most practical thing a businessman can employ.

I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.

The secret of success in business is creativity.

You need money to make money is nonsense! Entrepreneur people who started with nothing but an idea.

I once locked my keys out of my car. I had to break out of my car with a coat hanger.

When I got the job on 'Lost,' I was a broke university student living in the crappiest part of town, with a duct-taped back window on a broken-down car. I existed on peanut butter and tea.

If you don't have a car, ride a bicycle or a donkey.

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.

We can get by on land only by carrying a huge amount of salt water around with us.

Sheep are funny, the Whitlock said. Now, you look at how they behave when you throw some grub over the fence to them, such as corn stalks. Why, they'll spot that from a mile away. The Whitlock chuckled. They're smart when it comes to what concerns them. And maybe that helps us see what true smartness is; it isn't having read a lot of big books, or knowing long words...it's being able to spot what's to our advantage. It's got to be useful to be real smartness.

This man is different. He can fix anything, do anything. He doesn't work with knowledge, with science—the classified accumulation of facts. He knows nothing. It's not in his head, a form of learning. He works by intuition—his power is in his hands, not his head. Jack-of-all-trades. His hands! Like a painter, an artist. In his hands—and he cuts across our lives like a knife-blade.

Es el tipo de cosa que, si sabes que se puede hacer, la haces tú mismo, si dispones del tiempo suficiente.