Quotes About Resourcefulness

When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.

A charity which knows only how to give money is not yet Christian love. You will be free of guilt only when you also give your time, your energy, and your resourcefulness to help end such abuses for good, and when you allow nothing that lies hidden in the storehouse of your Christian religion to remain unused against the cancer that is destroying the vitality of our society in such alarming ways.

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

Certainly a rope and pulley would have worked best. But not everybody around here went to Kim Il Sung University.

Many people know of the maxim said by the biologist François Jacob describing natural selection as a tinkerer. I like to think of the words of the US president Teddy Roosevelt: "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

A practical girl never pines; she takes action.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

With an old broom handle, flour, water and egg you can make the most amazing pasta.

Everyone had their own machete. Because that's how you cut grass in Africa. There were no lawn mowers. We had to tend our own patches. I still feel as if I have got the blisters.

When I was a 25-year-old kid, I raised $260,000 for my first show, 'The Pajama Game,' in such a homemade, pathetic, endearing way - a buck here, a buck there.

Stay as connected as you can. Sometimes that means you're going to do a job that may not pay you much but may give you a great connection. If the work is not going the way you need it to go, create your own!

Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time.

The best thing I can make is a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich.

Never leave a pen around me - it will be gone.

As a filmmaker, if you want to write a script, all you need is some paper and a pen or a computer, that's it.

When I was a developer, I couldn't buy a pencil. I had no budget, nothing.

There's a character, Eon, I did back in the 'Captain Marvel' story. Eon came from a greasy smudge on a paper bag inside my kitchen being used for garbage. I went and got a paper and pencil, drew it up, and he became a character in that story. Things come from everywhere.

I always hated the thought of not having two pennies to rub together.

There's an ongoing 'water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink' situation at my house in terms of both pens and paper.

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.

Produce what you consume; draw from the native element the necessaries of life. Permit no vitiated taste to lead you into the indulgence of expensive luxuries, which can only be obtained by involving yourselves in debt.

You never know what you're getting into like some of the best experiences I've ever had have been movies that literally had a million dollar budget and everybody's eating Cheetos all day and running around without permits and trying not to get caught.