Quotes About Resourcefulness

Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8, 000 movies.

Men can dig wells, but they can't create water.

You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.

I'm not a cook and I always stick everything in the freezer and then I leave things out, saying 'if it's good today it will be good tomorrow.'

I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they bothered. It's improvisational. I cook with whatever I have laying around.

If you're going to make a movie for ten thousand you can talk everybody into doing it for free. You could make a really good-looking movie right for ten grand, if you have an idea.

Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

The great thing about bushcraft is that wherever you go, the skills go with you.

Whoever does great things with small means has successfully reached the goal.

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

One of the great things about African-Americans is that we've always had this attitude: We make do with what we got. It comes from our ancestors being slaves.

Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out how to make fake jawbone jewelry that would look like the real thing.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

A mobile home with a flat tire is a home.

I just try to get on anyway that I can, hit, hit-by-pitch, walk, home runs, anything.

Growing up I always used to shop in Oxfam. I'd find things for 50p and then take them home, cut them up and make them into something new.

Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.

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

If you are in a remote desert island, let your best hope be your own efforts to build a ship instead of waiting for a ship to appear among the fogs!

I would just have to find a hog, slaughter it, butcher it, cure the meat, then fry it up. Thinking about the bacon—the potential of bacon—gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't. Seriously.

I am slowly coming to the conclusion that it's more important to learn to work with what you've got, under the circumstances you've been given, than wishing for different ones.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.