Quotes About Resourcefulness

A Jewish woman had 2 chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.

Does Batman ever NOT have a plan...?

Un nano non lancia mai la sua arma se non ne ha un'altra!

One man gave her water from his skin pouch, which carried with it a faint taste of animal

A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes — so check your value to the community.

Life has been reduced to getting food out of cans.

A Russian fashion consultant once told me that fashion stops at the Siberian border, where instead of showing off, the prerogative is survival. The

I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.

If you lived in the wild, you'd need to know how to make fire to survive. But you live in an urban world, and you need to make money. That means you need a job, and the only way to get a job is by turning a job interview into a job offer.

use what you've got. Always find a use for what you've got. Never promise what you can't deliver, and always do a deal with a smile and a friendly word if possible. That advice had served him in good stead all his working life.

Zero Waste is a goal that is ethical, economical, efficient and visionary, to guide people in changing their lifestyles and practices to emulate sustainable natural cycles, where all discarded materials are designed to become resources for others to use. Zero Waste means designing and managing products and processes to systematically avoid and eliminate the volume and toxicity of waste and materials, conserve and recover all resources and not burn or bury them.

There are no rules when it comes to survival.

You going to kill the Patrei with a spoon?" I turned my head. It was Wren, her hands planted on her hips. "Not that I don't think you could.

You going to kill the Patrei with a spoon?

There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope.

Be it in you, or around you, harness genius.

Use your enemy's arrows for firewood.

Nana, how come we don't got a car?' 'Boy, what do we need a car for? We got a bus that breathes fire, and old Mr. Daniels, who always has a trick for you.

If you find that you are short of funds in the field, remember that any paper can be mind augmented to perform in the place of real money.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it; but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle.

it doesn't necessarily take genius to spend resources . . . it does, though, to work within the resource constraints you're given.

Looking up, Missouri saw a formation of low-flying P-47's on the horizon, heading up the coast from Naples...Sergeant Missouri laughed aloud. "They're sending us the Air Force, Chico, and we made it with a donkey," he said.

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

In Soviet thinking the concept of economy of force has little place. Whereas to an Englishman the taking of a sledgehammer to crack a nut is a wrong decision and a sign of mental immaturity...in Russian eyes the cracking of nuts is clearly what sledgehammers are for.