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Quotes About Resourcefulness

Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver.
~ Unknown
Engineering...to define rudely but not inaptly, is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.
~ Arthur Mellen Wellington
Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo.
~ Unknown
Dac? nu exist? ferestre, ele trebuie inventate.
~ Unknown
I can take care of myself. I've got plenty of potions. If he comes back again, I'll turn him into a frog and feed him to a duck.
~ Unknown
Creativity Loves Constraints.
~ Marissa Mayer
Teach a cook a recipe and he'll cook for a night; teach a cook a technique and she'll improvise for a lifetime.
~ Mark Bittman
If man could apply half the ingenuity he's exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there's no limit to what he might yet accomplish
~ Mark Frost
If you don't learn to feed yourself, you wind up dumpster diving for someone else's leftovers.
~ Mark Hall
Real Canada is where people wear sweaters for survival, not style.
~ Unknown
I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.
~ Paula Poundstone
I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.
~ Yanni
A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could have only one book, what would it be? I always say, "How to Build a Boat.
~ Stephen Wright
Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-climbing powers we get Aquatruck.
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
A horse blanket, Mel?I remembered what I was wearing. 'It tore in half when Hrani tried washing it. She was going to mend it. This piece was too small for a horse, but it was just right fo
~ Sherwood Smith, Crown Duel
... even one centimetre can make an awful lot of difference when you don't have many to spare.
~ Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.
~ Paul Hawken
For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.
~ Horace
Using what you have is always creates more opportunities for the future.
~ B.J. The Chicago Kid
My goal is to eliminate positions where I can't function.
~ Steve Nash
Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
~ Steven Spielberg
I've realized that instead of posting all my problems on Facebook, its better to find solutions for them on Google.
~ Unknown
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
~ Milton Berle