Quotes About Resourcefulness

Money doesn't ask anyone to show the way, it always makes its own way.

I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who are brave and resourceful people embarking on exciting adventures, definitely shaped my inner self and nourished my love for the outdoors.

The Indian always took two pairs of moccasins on his trips, because when one became wet or worn out, he always had a second pair handy.

Indians made necklaces out of practically anything that took their fancy. Eagle and grizzly bear claws were prized by them because it required much skill and daring to get them.

During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.

How is the human race going to survive now that the cost of living has gone up two dollars a quart?

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy.

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

You have a drawer full of dull butter knives and an old pair of kitchen shears. You are hardly armed to the teeth.

Let's reuse whatever we have now, stop making more of it, take what we gather, and make - whether it's car parts, computer cases, anything that we can use.

I didnt have a computer until I was 19 - but I did have an abacus.

Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage.

You might be a redneck if on your first date you had to ask your Dad to borrow the keys to the tractor.

We never look back. We have no time for regrets or second thoughts. If a plan goes awry we make another, if one weapon breaks in our hands we find a second. If the steps fall down before us we overleap them and go up.

We will have to cut our coats to suit our cloth, and wait and see.

You must use what you have,' he says, the advice of a good man to a whore for time immemorial. 'You must use what you are allowed.

the true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

yet the true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

She lived with the doctor on Via Po, in a gloomy, dark apartment, barely warmed in winter by just a small Franklin stove, and she no longer threw out anything, because everything might eventually come in handy: not even the cheese rinds or the foil on chocolates, with which she made silver balls to be sent to missions to "free a little black boy.

No, no era una superheroína, pero era otra cosa. Era una persona... con recursos.

She'd started handcuffed, armed with a paper clip. Now she had a ten-inch strip of metal with sharp edges, handcuffs, and a paper clip. Her odds were improving all the time.

My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty.

one of those doctors who work for nothing in countries that are so poor the people have no money, so they trade with one another using bricks of dry animal dung they can burn to heat their hovels and a few diseased chickens and maybe some edible tubers that they dig out of the floor of a snake-infested jungle