Quotes About Resourcefulness

This is my emergency kit. It contained a roll of duct tape, a spare pair of pants, an envelope with two hundred dollars, two bags of dried fruit, two packages of beef jerky, three bottles of water, a roll of thick shop towels you see mechanics use, a small metal pipe - just right for cracking a skull with - and a fake beard. Look, you never know.

furnaces for dyers and brewers, which when known will be used without

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.

Hamet, Seid, and Abdallah were stung by the irony that on the wild desert, where people had virtually nothing, they shared freely, but here, where resources were comparatively abundant, no one would offer them so much as a drink.

What they could use and carry from a shipwreck, the Sahrawis took. What they could not take, it was their custom to burn. To the victims who witnessed this destruction of their personal articles and the cargo of their vessel, it was often the last cruel blow before they assumed the life of a slave to some of the poorest people on earth, living in some of the harshest conditions imaginable.

It's amazing what you can do when you get creative.

If there is no door open for me, I build a door

Creativity is the mother of invention.

When life gives you lemons ask it for sugar and water too. Otherwise your final product would be some acidic lemon juice!

A timber fit for pillarsshould not be misused for chopsticks

When you've tried everything and failed, try everything else and succeed

But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got.

When everyone wanted to be successful, I wanted to be resourceful so that I could help everyone to be successful.

Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage.

Genius is independent of situation.

Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.

Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.

When you don't have an education, you have to use your brains.

The shrewd, like chameleons, embrace change by using it to their advantage.

I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.