Quotes About Resourcefulness

I tote around that big ol' sewing machine with me everywhere I go.

There is nothing shameful about being efficient.

When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.

If you can't eat it, shoot it, or wear it, don't bring it.

I'm always in awe of improvisers that make something out of complete nothing.

One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.

I've been enjoying baking with whatever is available at home.

I think that I, because of student government and because of working in Baltimore, knew how to be creative with very little resources.

Yep, I often lit the barbie with old drafts.

I am someone who looks to be prepared for everything.

In high school, for two years, I made all my beats on earbuds. I'd just guess, so the frequencies would be all off.

You should own nothing except what you can carry on your back at a dead run.

Said his name was Alex. And he was big-time hungry. Hungry, hungry, hungry. But real happy. Said he'd been surviving on edible plants he identified from the book. Like he was real proud of it.

Reuss would spend the remainder of his meteoric life on the move, living out of a backpack on very little money, sleeping in the dirt, cheerfully going hungry for days at a time.

Learning how to walk through walls was an ambitious but inexpensive enterprise.

Once I had it free, I gobbled the sandwich like a nature-film otter cracking an oyster on its stomach: knees up in the wiring under the dashboard, my elbows jammed against the steering wheel, my chest serving as a table, my shirt as a tablecloth.

Whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

La Naturaleza se satisface con muy poco y que la necesidad es madre de la invención.

If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, scum it well, and it will give the soup a high French taste.

Those who are more thrifty (as I must confess the times require) may flay the carcass; the skin of which, artificially dressed, will make admirable gloves for ladies, and summer boots for fine gentlemen.

Cactus finches do more with cactus than Plains Indians did with buffalo. They nest in cactus; they sleep in cactus; they often copulate in cactus; they drink cactus nectar; they eat cactus flowers, cactus pollen, and cactus seeds. In return they pollinate the cactus, like bees.

Cuando se encuentre en un callejón sin salida, no sea idiota, salga por donde entró.

Instead of freaking out about these constraints, embrace them. Let them guide you. Constraints drive innovation and force focus. Instead of trying to remove them, use them to your advantage.

Lacking a pot, Pepys "shit in the chimney" twice one night, whereas the Yorkshire laborer Abram Ingham used his "clogg" [shoe] to "make water in." If all else failed, an Italian adage instructed, "You may piss a bed, and say you sweated."38