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Quotes About Resourcefulness

The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.
~ Jeremy Paxman
An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
~ James Joyce
Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.
~ Cassandra Clare
She ran after the garbage truck, yelling, "Am I too late for the garbage?" "No, jump in!"
~ Henny Youngman
The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.
~ Will Rogers
My Irish mate told me, if you file down the edges of a 50 pence piece, you can use it as a 10p.
~ Frank Carson
Wilbur looked at the list glumly. "Are you sure you need all this stuff?""Yep.""The ax?""The ax is critical.""The c
~ Ursula Vernon, Ratpunzel
Opposable thumbs are overrated.
~ Terry Kaye, Dog Only Knows
And-he was ashamed to admit--he had been known to carry off the occasional roll of duct tape. That stuff could be used for everything.
~ Sharon Ashwood, Unchained
Don't waste water on washing your shirt, use photoshop!
~ EverSkeptic
A blind ingenuity goes nowhere
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
...as the old saying goes: if you teach a man to fish, he will feed himself for a lifetime. But if you just give him a fishing pole, he'll have to teach himself.
~ Zechariah Barrett
Sure. If she gets mugged, she can just flute them to death.
~ Seanan McGuire, Indexing
I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense....
~ Anton Chekhov
When the hares have all been caught, the hunting dogs are cooked.
~ Laozi
When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.
~ Rhona Mitra
I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you're forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch.
~ Heath Ledger
Capability means imagination.
~ Napoleon Hill
Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.
~ Terry Brooks
Imagination comes of not having things.
~ LeRoy Neiman
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
~ Edward de Bono
It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
~ Al Franken
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
~ Virginia Woolf