Quotes About Resourcefulness

Jimmy Boggs was born in a little town called Marion Junction, Alabama, where there were as many pigs, or more pigs, than even the people. But you know what? People in the South had an understanding that you could make a way out of no way, and that's how they survived.

Some people survived the neolithic age by being brave, others by being cowardly and smart.

Honestly, surviving in 'Bigg Boss' was a cakewalk as compared to staying in 'Survivor,' where we had to live in primitive-age conditions, even generating fire on our own.

I discovered at age 13 that if a spoon had 'Sterling' on the back, it was worth money. I'd run around a swap meet and find 20 in a day, make 75 to 100 bucks by finding silver spoons.

For years, I stored my sweaters in the oven.

I learned how to make an endoscope using a Swiss Army Knife, a cell phone camera, cell phone, and chewing gum.

I go to each job and open my little briefcase up, and I take out the things that I have or I know. It might be a Swiss army knife, a quart of milk and a ruler. That might be all I can bring to it, but that's what I have.

One of my favorite books is 'The Swiss Family Robinson.' The reason is, I'm fascinated by the postapocalyptic recovery. What do we do in a disaster? How do we make do?

I can't bring a sword into the ground, so have to make do with the bat.

We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with.

I bought this Oxygen midi synth from a flea market in Boston for $10. And then I found a cord in my house that fit it, and so I just started using that to do synth stuff in GarageBand.

I played a guitar with a file, and a synthesizer.

Finding a store that sells synthetic hair in Kigali is easier than locating a Starbucks in New York City without Google Maps.

We were poor. If I wasn't a boy, I wouldn't have had nothing to play with.

we always went back to my grandma's pockets, because she carried in them everything you would need to get through the day or start life in a new state. You wanted hard candy, loose change, a little pencil, a bobby pin, a safety pin, a pre-threaded needle, an aspirin, Band-Aids, stamps or rubber bands? She had them on her person at all times. Those pockets carried what are now carried at bodegas.

If all else fails, pillage the fridge.

When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH You can start with nothing, and out of nothing and out of no way, a way will be made.

One resourceful mom took her son's fixation on the video game Minecraft and made real wood "Minecraft" blocks for her son and the neighborhood kids to play with. This provided a connection between building things in the virtual world and building structures in the real world.

Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.

Big Mac started life selling paper cups. He was someone else who didn't believe in wasting time.

la basura de un hombre es el tesoro de otro"; en este esquema, le pedimos a la gente que mire si tiene ropa, muebles o cualquier cosa que ya no use y los lleven a la oficina, donde hay un punto de recolección.

Yes, and this is mine. (Baldrick produces a single scruffy piece of paper.) My magnificent octopus.

Next morning, when I got up, the inside temperature was 30° below zero. The new arrangement was working quite nicely indeed.