Quotes About Resourcefulness

Nothing lasts forever. But the thing is, you can reuse some. Use your mind. - Leo's Mother, The Lost Hero

Concentrate your energy, your thoughts and your capital.

I hate how many people think "glass half-empty" when their glass is really four-fifths full. I'm grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.

Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.

Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.

I made so many recordings with junky mics and crappy mixing consoles, you have to use what your tools are and in some ways that's been inspirational.

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

Ingenuity requires creativity.

Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.

Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

If life takes you long way, take a shortcut!

If the sky falls, we shall catch larks./Když nebe padá, zjímáme sk?ivani.

I have a motto that if something isn't blatantly impossible, then there must be a way of doing it.

Some say you have only one shot in life, well if you get ammo, you can reload.

Cheaper'n recyclin' yer nose tissues. --Mema

A wise man does not eat his seed even in the time of hunger, he knows the value of his seed!

Desolina and Tony had attended one-room schoolhouses until the third grade. ... According to Tony, there were hardly enough pencils and sober teachers to go around. [Author's grandparents educational background.]

Use crayons as emergency survival candles

Both of our parents lived their lives practicing gaman—patience and resilience," said Nobusuke, the second-born son. "They never wasted anything—not food, time, or anger. Instead, they waited for things to work out.

As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!

As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Violà! Bookshelves!

It is our lot to take what we have, make of it what we will. We are meant to finger the leftovers, rock our old dolls, clutch wooden angels to our breasts.

Omdat de e-toets van mijn schrijfmachine los zit - in plaats van resoluut in te grijpen en het ding vast te plakken probeer ik hem iedere keer met een splintertje van een lucifer vast te zetten, wat eigenlijk niet zo verwonderlijk is want het valt je pas op als je de machine gebruikt en dan kan je niet gaan plakken - moest ik denken aan een voortand van mij waar ook wat beweging in zit.