Quotes About Resourcefulness

My mother took the measure of what could be built with the material she'd been given, and she built it.

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

From parental sensitivity and structure emerge a child's resourcefulness, resilience, and relational ability.

I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.

Even a small village in the middle of Africa with a 3D printer will have access to any good it can download. The world of the 'Star Trek' replicator is not far away.

Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no power, under shelling in Kurdistan.

I started dressing vintage when I was a teenager because I didn't have money for designer clothes.

When I was 22, I wasn't too proud to do anything. I was taking out trash, buying stinky vintage clothes, and pulling gross Kleenex out of the pockets.

You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a tiny low-budget movie costs $20 million. And the money they spend on the big movies is astronomical.

Most of us have heard the saying, 'Cleanliness is next to godliness.' That's a sentiment I value, but another virtue has inspired me to revise that saying. As far as I'm concerned, what's next to godliness is resourcefulness.

Cheapness is a great virtue.

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

Great entrepreneurial DNA is comprised of leadership, technological vision, frugality, and the desire to succeed.

Do not spend much of your energy trying to move a large rock, instead move as many smaller stones as you can

no one had ever let them think that initiative was acceptable behavior.

You ever wear a bathing suit because you've run out of clean underwear?

You can think of a lot of things to make out of nothing, if you have to.

Gabri plugged the oven and the espresso machine into the generator,' explained Olivier. 'No lights, but we have the necessities.

Ruth believed in precycling. An evolution on recycling. She made use of things before people threw them out.

You can't get milk from a hardware store. So stop asking for something that can't be given. And look for what is offered. She saw the fork of food, and the thin lips that rarely smiled at them, blowing on it.

16.00 uur: Net ontdekt dat Libby mijn laatste maandverbandjes gebruikt heeft als hangmatten voor haar poppen. 16.30 uur: Ze heeft ook al mijn foundation op haar panda gesmeerd, zijn hoofd is nu helemaal beige. 17.00 uur: Ik heb geen foundation meer en ook geen geld. Ik ben bang dat ze eraan gaat. 17.15 uur: Nee. Rust. Ohmmmmmm. Innerlijke rust.

You can get a goat to climb tree, but you'd be better off hiring a squirrel.

I have to go to the toilet," I tell Ma urgently after dinner. "You have to go in the woods." "But where?" "Anywhere you can find. Wait, I'll get you some toilet paper." Ma goes away and comes back with a bunch of paper sheets in her hand. My eyes widen in disbelief, "Ma! It's money. I can't use money!" "Use it, it is of no use to us anymore.