Quotes About Resourcefulness

Du känner till det där med yin och yang, och krona eller klave? Du kommer snart att fatta vart jag vill komma. Vet du att de två pajasarna som uppfann föregångaren till mobilen du har i handen började i ett garage där de använde sig av defekta komponenter från skroten på en stor flygindustri? Var de lumpsamlare eller genier?

There has never been a military in the entire history of the human race that has gone to war equipped with more than the least that it needs to fight its enemy. War is expensive. It costs money and it costs lives and no civilization has an infinite amount of either. So when you fight, you conserve. You use and equip only as much as you have to, never more.

Don't bring a spoon to a toothbrush fight

It's this: Confidence isn't about knowing you're right. Confidence is about knowing you can make it right.

Creativity eventually comes from the need not to have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards.

I do wonder whether there will come a time when we can no longer afford our wastefulness

Bleedin' like a son-of-a-bitch, he said. Well, I can stop that. He urinated on the ground, picked up a handful of the resulting mud, and plastered it over the wound.

He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole life had any talent for making money.

They have one quilt and a piece of canvas for bedding. The sleeping arrangement is clever. Mother and father lie down together and two children lie between them. Then heading the other way, the other two children lie, the littler ones. If the mother and father sleep with their legs spread wide, there is room for the legs of the children.

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway.

I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills.

My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.

I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.

When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.

Educated people change themselves according to the situation, but the experienced people can change the situation according to them.

If plan A Didn't work. The alphabet has 25 more letters! Stay Cool.

When life gives you lemons, add sweet tea.

I started out with nothin' and still have most of it left.

The easiest way to make ends meet is to get off your own.

She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.

It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.

If life deals you lemons, make lemonade; if it deals you tomatoes, make Bloody Marys.