Quotes About Resourcefulness

He knows that when you snap a mast it's time to get a set of oars or learn how to breathe underwater. Rely on one thing too long and when it disappears and you have nothing–well, that's just bad planning. It's embarrassing, to think it could never happen. It happens.

Gathering can be just as critical as hunting because men sometimes return with nothing, in which case the family must rely entirely on gathered foods.

You made your own jean shorts...with a butter knife?

Impossible situations are our specialty.

How?d you get here?? I asked. She winked. ?You?re not the only ones who can steal cars. Or, in my case, get people to 'willingly? lend them.

Dimitri: "They weren't supposed to let you in."Rose: "Yeah. Well, I kind of found a work-around."Dimitri: "Of course you did."- Dimitri Belikov and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)

We take what what we can get.

Dimitri seemed like the kind of guy you could throw into the wilderness and he would survive off anything.

I lifted the lid and found a piece of bread and some water—and a rat that quickly darted off the tray. Talk about adding insult to injury.

Few battles are won by strength alone. Cunning and knowing your resources can help you overpower the most powerful.

The necessary resources are assembled to tackle a specific task or problem, and when the work is done the organization, such as it is, is disassembled and moves on to the next task.

A related theme is to leverage external resources to the extent that you can, rather than trying to complete an ecosystem all by yourself.

He thought how strange life was. The certainties vanish. What takes their place is resourcefulness and thanking God for life.

I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?

At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that 'news' is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different--in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness.

Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.

Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.

When it don't rain, the roof don't leak; when it rains, I can't fix it nohow.

We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection

That was smart, that was engineering: never reinvent something that you can buy down the street.

If you load a mud foot down with a lot of gadgets that he has to watch, somebody a lot more simply equipped—say with a stone ax—will sneak up and bash his head in while he is trying to read a vernier.

I've been broke even oftener than I've been wealthy. Of the two, being broke is more interesting, as a man who doesn't know where his next meal is coming from is never bored. He may be angry or several other things—but not bored. His predicament sharpens his thoughts, spurs him into action, adds zest to his life, whether he knows it or not.

That's the beauty about this business. You don't have to know anything; you just have to know where to find out.

At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that "news" is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different—in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness.