Quotes About Resourcefulness

improvisator.

Not knowing what else to try, she got out her heavy cast-iron skillet and banged it against the top of the rad in hopes of reviving the ageing pipes. The noise was deafening, vibrating through the room like a jet aircraft crashing through the sound barrier.

how getting into the habit of feeling comfortable turning to her network to ask for help has made her more effective:

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.

Marketing with a small baby was more like a ninety-minute expedition into Darkest Borneo, requiring massive amounts of equipment and tremendous expenditures of energy.

And it was, as Dougal explained, convenient to the pillory, a homely wooden contraption that stood on a small stone plinth in the center of the square, adjacent to the wooden stake used—with thrifty economy of purpose—as whipping post, maypole, flagstaff and horse tether, depending upon requirements.

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

When I started off my career I did each and everything on my own. Whether it was finding numbers or going for auditions it was done all alone without anyone's help.

I always drove the crappiest cars out there.

It's absolutely astounding how enterprising people are.

Some dogs are escape artists.

Qué quiere decir? —se extrañó Dalmau. —Pues que mientras unos respetan nuestro trabajo y nos encargan piezas y diseños, y confiemos que sigan haciéndolo, Gaudí se dedica a recoger los desechos de fábricas y talleres para recubrir las obras con eso que él llama trencadís, un mosaico mal ensamblado de piezas rotas y restos desechados de cerámica, vidrio y porcelana.

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

A nation's strength ultimately consist in what it can do on its own and not in what it can borrow from other.

It was funny yet pitiable when I imagined how they gathered whatever white cloth they could find, attached it to a dead twig, and marched forward just to surrender

May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.

What do these children do without storybooks?" Naftali asked. And Reb Zebulun replied: "They have to make do. Storybooks aren't bread. You can live without them." I couldn't live without them." Naftali said.

These things are endless. When you try fixing your mind on the places you contact with your eyes and ears, you'll find that everything between Heaven and Earth can become the seed of some resourcefulness. There is nothing under Heaven that cannot be said to be your teacher. Everything is important to you, so search it out. When there is absolutely nothing important enough for you to search out, there will be nothing left for you to receive from mankind.

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

You know, sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.

Let's say each one of these glue sticks is a wheel

That's your job. To make something out of nothing. To pull together all the disparate threads: recruiting (with no money), fundraising (with no reputation), and delivering joy (with no product). You must fabricate the chicken and the egg. Simultaneously.