Quotes About Resourcefulness

My schooldays coincided with a complete ban on teaching the alphabet, and I have a terrible time finding anything in the telephone directory.

If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

I walk on the surface of a shifting bog. I have to grab for whatever I can find that is solid.

Man knew how to feed, clothe, and house himself millenniums before mathematics existed.

WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LAVA, MAKE LAVA JUICE

There is no rule of thumb when it comes to survival. Everything is allowed, even behaving like a wild animal.

You must be a genius to do business. Otherwise, be armed with a basket full of tricks.

For future reference, I am never, ever going to a ball again without a crossbow and a flamethrower.

Sándwiches de ensaladilla —dijo con voz normal, abriendo paquetes envueltos con papel de aluminio— y de queso con kétchup. Plátanos y pastel de especias. —Sonrió—. No puedo garantizar la calidad del pastel porque es el primero que hago y mi abuela ha tenido que darme indicaciones hasta el final. También traigo café. Seguro que preferirías tomar vino, pero no me llegaba el dinero y a veces no se creen que tenga dieciocho años.

The soldiers became desperate. 'We were absolutely, literally starved,' noted Private Joseph Martin in his diary. After four days without food, he gnawed a piece of black birch bark off a stick. Then, 'I saw several of the men roast their old shoes and eat them.

I come from a plane that fell into the mountains. I am Uruguayan. We have been walking for ten days. I have a friend up here who is injured. In the plane there is fourteen injured people. We have to get of here quickly and we don't have any food. We are weak. When are you going to come and fetch us? Please. We can't even walk. Where are we?

People make what they need for themselves," says Roxy. "My dad says that. If there's something you need, something you really have to have—not just want to but have to, you'll find a way to get it.

People make what they need for themselves.

There is an old joke: A physicist, an engineer, and an economist are stranded on a desert island with nothing but canned food. The physicist proposes to make a fire and heat the can until it bursts. The engineer proposes to climb to a local ridge and drop the can, which will burst on landing. The economist says: "Assume a can opener.

Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances

Do nothing but be prepared to do anything.

Show some fucking adaptability!

The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

I did not have an unlimited library to choose from on Robben Island. We had access to many unremembered mysteries and detective novels and all the works of Daphne du Maurier, but little more.

but an elliptical tower with one gun and two carronades could be built for a fifth of the price,

Coffee will get you through a time of no money. Money will never get you through a time of no coffee.

Showing off her best points was a habit that saved her life more than once.