Quotes About Resourcefulness

Only the clever men can be flexible; others are condemned to remain as rigid!

We can drink soup with a fork, it will only take long time! As long as we are patient, we can drink it even with a tiny pin!

I was at my best when I was backed into a corner. Like a cornered rat I had to somehow jump out of it. I would never surrender. Carl knew he would never get the same answer twice, and I loved to surprise him. Carl: Who is the favorite of all your girlfriends of all time? Mel: Shirley. Carl: What was so special about Shirley? Mel: Her friend Leila. Carl hit the floor.

I'm no ambulance chaser. I always get there before the ambulance arrives.

Cities are the world's new vacant niches, and the blackbird is one species that has embarked on the road toward speciating to maximize its profits from this horn of plenty,

If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.

More prized by his parents than good grades, Chris mentioned, was "Yankee ingenuity"—putting your smarts to work. "It's better to be tough than strong, better to be clever than intelligent," he said, repeating a family maxim.

Some items had been in place for so long that the trees grew around them. A claw hammer was nearly swallowed by a tree trunk, impossible to remove, and Hughes said that this hammer, more than anything, made him realize how long Knight had lived there.

You don't have to be a seasoned tactician to realize that your ass is cold.

Unless life also hands you sugar and water, your lemonade is going to suck.

Glass spotted another dog by the creek, and this one he did not spare. Soon he had a fire burning in the center of the hut. Part of the dog he roasted on a spit over the fire and part he boiled in the kettle. He threw corn into the pot with the dog meat and continued his search through the village.

Jackson is gone - not entirely gone; Jackson was there today watching, and Ewell sees his eyes - but you cannot blame him for not being Jackson. You must make do with the tools God has given for the job.

That is how entrepreneurs work. Where others see a barrier, they imagine a logical solution and then turn it into reality.

Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals.

Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he can eat for a lifetime. Changing the world may not be so daunting after all.

Avant d'attaquer chaque nouvelle journée de marche, j'applique une vieille recette esquimaude qui consiste à me moucher dans mes doigts et à étaler le résultat sur mon visage. Qu'on se rassure : il ne s'agit que d'un liquide transparent, qui gèle et forme un masque antigelures plus efficace que toutes les crèmes – ce qui m'évite d'en transporter une, puisque j'ai le nez qui coule en permanence.

Work hard AND smart.

They'd make a tasty broth from stones and bitterness.

It's my job to know what others don't. How did you know to make kimchi and sell it on a street corner to earn money? You knew because you wanted to live. I want to live, too, and if I want to live, I have to know things others don't. Now, I'm telling you something valuable.

You take your mentoring where you can find it, even if it's not being offered to you.

i had no money for the bus, so i walked. it was an incredible distance. a horse would get tired galloping there. when birds flew there, it was called migration.

He who could not find plow-oxen owns cattle.