Quotes About Resourcefulness

He fishes well who uses a golden hook.

Useful lessons learnt today may not necessarily be of use to you today, save them for later. There always comes a time where you won't be able to eat and you'll live from what you had last night!

A rich man's soup - and all from a few stones. It seemed like magic!

I had eight magazines of 5.56mm bullets and ChemLights. As team lead, I carried flares, an extra radio, and an extra antenna stuffed in a cargo pocket. I had a computer and a medical pack containing QuikClot, bandages, needles, and tourniquets. I had water and food, too. I weighed about 250 pounds without my gear, and more than 325 with it. With every step I took, I could feel my spine compressing like a shock absorber.

Not an elegant tapestry but a serviceable quilt.

You can do whatever you set your mind to if you just roll up your sleeves, get in there, and do it. Everything is figureoutable.

It's never about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness.

One graduate student told me, "When the Apocalypse comes, you want to know an archaeologist, because we know how to make fire, catch food, and create hill forts," and I promptly added her to my address book. Knows how to make hill forts—who can say when that will come in handy?

One of the advantages of living in the Ice Age would be that there are not very many people around. You're constantly moving, and you have to live by your wits. You can't just have fifteen different kinds of tools, you can't carry them. And no villages—no village idiots. Imagine a world free of idiots!" Idiots, he liked to point out, "don't survive in environments with lions.

Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.

Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?

When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.

If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I'd need: food, shelter, and a grip.

To equip a pedestrian with shelter, bedding, utensils, food, and other necessities, in a pack so light and small that he can carry it without overstrain, is really a fine art.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Recipe? Recipe? We don' need no stinkin' recipe.

It's a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble ingredients.

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

A tent, a roll mat, a little bit of food, a bit of petrol in your tank and a vague idea of where you're going and that's all you need.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.