Quotes About Resourcefulness

I just try to make plays when needed and pick up the loose ends.

We're making high-budget movies with a low-budget attitude.

If you read fashion magazines, and you couldn't afford something, or you were living outside London, you had to make it yourself.

Everywhere I have been, I have always found a way to make it happen.

Management, whether you're managing in the lower division or you're right at the top, is about getting the best out of what you've got.

When you don't have money for marketing, you explore alternate ways.

Actually, everyone in India does some jugaad in their lives, whether in school, college, marriages, work etc. And most of us have different jugaads for different situations.

Nature rarely wastes a winning strategy.

In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds.

Behind it a pile of old rags with a hat on top organized itself into a man, albeit a scruffy one, and struggled to its feet.

We used to manage quite well when she was away sitting for artists, because in those days we lived mostly on bread, vegetables and eggs; but now that we can afford some meat or even chickens, I keep coming to grief. I scrubbed some rather dirty-looking chops with soap which proved very lingering, and I did not take certain things out of a chicken that I ought to have done.

He heard a page turning beside him: Paola obviously had kept some text secreted about her person or under the cushion where she sat, left there in the event that life presented her with the necessity of spending three minutes with nothing to read.

Brunetti remembered when they found themselves with an excessive catch, they chose to give it away, rather than watch it rot.

Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.

he said well if you can't plan it out ahead of time, you'll just have to work it out as you go along

This was extraordinary, as Mrs. Fountain was so cheap she washed out her old tinfoil to roll in a ball and use again

No money, holes in my socks, living off oatmeal.

If things got really bad at Grandpa's, I figured, my mother and I could live alongside Shelter Rock. We could sleep under the canopy and cook our meals over an open fire, and though it would be rough, how much rougher could it be?

S. Rainsford.

An intelligent man [doesn't] know everything, he simply [knows] how to look everything up quickly and efficiently." - Jack Chalker, Songs of the Dancing Gods

I simply cooked the way I felt, based on the ingredients at my disposal. That became my definition of American cuisine.

Ghetel was clawing at the rotten bark on the underside of the big fallen tree that sheltered them. Bark debris and wood-punk kept falling on the blanket. Ghetel, a silhouette against the half-light, would scrabble in the decaying wood for a moment, then pause and put something to her mouth

All fish are not caught with flies.

We made our own fish-lines, twisting and double-twisting and triple-twisting the silk, ganged on the hooks, bought the long bamboo poles and cut them up, and out of them made our own jointed fishing-rods. We always cleaned our fish ourselves. It was the law of the sport that our fun should not make work for others which we ourselves could do.