Quotes About Resourcefulness

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

Knowledge is the key to survival, the real beauty of that is that it doesn't weigh anything.

Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them

Trust Anne to turn a disadvantage into an asset!

Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door...

You never knew when condoms might come in handy . . . you could blow them up like balloons and tie messages to them, or fill them with water, or roll them on to your fingers and use them as fingerstalls. He didn't really foresee any possibility of their being put to the purpose for which they were intended.

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination.

One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.

Yefgenii said, "The Americans spent millions of dollars designing a pen that would work in space. What did we do?" Gevorkian's head was down, his eyes were down. "What did we do?" Gevorkian lifted his head "We used pencils." "We used pencils.

Soetsu Yanagi, in the "Unknown Craftsman", writes, "Man is most free when his tools are proportionate to his needs." For example, for optimal productivity, a carpenter needs woodworking tools and an environment conducive to his work, not a steam shovel or army tank.

That's right, kid. Never play an ace if a two will do.

That's right, kid. Never play an ace when a two will do.

That's how it was on Irving Circle and how I was raised: You made the best out of what was within reach, which meant friendships engineered by parents and by the happenstance of housing. I stayed with it because we both had queenly older sisters who rarely condescended to play with us, because Shelley was adopted and I was not, because Shelley had Clue and Life, and I did not

cloth bundles, chickens, and baskets.

We are meant to use what we have, whatever it is. We are meant to be less mindful of our insides, more outwardly directed.

There's another wonderful Italian expression: l'arte d'arrangiarsi-the art of making something out of nothing. The art of turning a few simple ingredients into a feast,or a few gathered friends into a festival. Anyone with a talent of happiness can do this, not only the rich.

Most individuals have never had enough time, and they've never had enough resources, and they've never had enough support or patronage or reward . . . and yet still they persist in creating. They persist because they care. They persist because they are called to be makers, by any means necessary.

Go back far enough and you will find people who were not consumers, people who were not sitting around passively waiting for stuff to happen to them. You will find people who spent their lives making things. This is where you come from. This is where we all come from. Human beings have been creative beings for a really long time—long enough and consistently enough that it appears to be a totally natural impulse.

do not be bold. You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

Pero si pudiera hacerme unos pantalones con la hierba de este jardín lo haría

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.

Shackleton, Crean, and Worsley went to work leveling the floor of the cave with some loose stones and dry tussock grass.

albatrosses on the nest. Shackleton went back for the shotgun, and they killed one adult and one chick.

The only superfluous item Shackleton permitted was Worsley's diary.