Quotes About Resourcefulness

The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves.

The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston...

Accordingly, Mr. Cook spent four years, six months, two days, $5,228.20, six thousand yards of wiring, three hundred and two radio tubes, a generator, reams of paper, dizzying mentation and the good will of his wife in assembling his duplication machine.

Fuller, in No. 3 Boat, was best provided for in terms of

Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things.

There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.

Hmm…" Jason snapped his fingers. "I can call a friend for a ride." Percy raised his eyebrows. "Oh, yeah? Me too. Let's see whose friend gets here first.

Well, yes, I call it the Expando-Duck. It's perfect if you need a small metal duck. Or a larger metal duck.

the answer to every problem involved penguins

You'd think he'd ran out off rocks, I muttered

There is always a way out for those who are clever enough to find it.

There's always a way out for those clever enough to find it. -Athena

When strength doesn't work," Zeus said, trickery might.

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

May the gods defend me from heroes with duct tape. And heroes always seem to have duct tape.

Jessica was easier, her character already fixed at the age of eight. Loyal, resourceful, confident, annoying. Clever, too clever sometimes. Too clever for her own good , their father said but their mother said, That's impossible. Especially for a girl.

Act fast but don't get tied into a single course of action.

but there was something so significant about being able to make a gorgeous item of clothing from almost raw materials. It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and creativity. It inspired her.

If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime."? It's the same for mathematics education for twenty-first century life.

When Rae got back, she spread her empty hands wide and said Okay, guess where I hid it. She even turned around for me, but I couldn't see a bulge big enough to hide a flashlight. With a grin, she reached down the front of her shirt into the middle of her bra, and pulled out a flashlight with flourish. I laughed. Cleavage is great, she said. Like an extra pocket.

Who cared whether you could change motor oil when you could snap a rottweiler's neck in 2.8 seconds? Now there was a practical skill.

Plenty of dead vegetation had blown in and dried out, and Daniel managed to knock rocks together, get a spark, and light a tiny blaze. Considering I'd escaped a raging forest fire earlier that day, I was good with tiny.

He was one of those guys who can talk to anyone--and talk his way out of trouble, which in Corey's case is a necessary survival skill.