Quotes About Resourcefulness

No one ever has the resources they need.

Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter !

I'm very involved with learning to be self-sufficient.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

Can't we all simmer down a bit? Let the teachers teach, the parents parent, and the kids do the learning. Our children will be fine, just as we were. They will figure it out, just as we did. They don't need every advantage skewed their way and every discomfort fluffed with pillows. I bet they don't even need sandwich dolphins. I am a product of bologna, red Kool-Aid, and home perms, and I turned out okay.

You can start out with nothing, and out of nothing, and out of no way, a way will be made.

As the alien, everything about this life is new to you. You look around—what do you see? What is this person who you've inhabited so obviously awesome at? What do they have the most fun doing? What connections do they have? What resources and opportunities are available to them? As

why kill two birds with one stone when you can kill twelve

Don't think this means I'm giving up. There's more than one way to decapitate a hellhound, and as it so happens, I know them all.

Why kill two birds with one stone, he always said, when you could kill twelve?

It was a truth universally acknowledged that a person in want of plastic baggies need only look in the Taft family kitchen. Aunt Olivia was the queen of Ziplocs. She'd taken over Lillian's cabinets and had entire drawers dedicated to them - every size, every type, a year's supply of each at least.

I've found duct tape more effective than advice, myself.

My inner Boy Scout had to try." If this guy had an inner Boy Scout, I had an inner flamingo.

There are different kinds of cleverness, Sara.

But the means—he was less certain that the means were above reproach. But what can a man do, or a woman either, but use what comes to hand?

Those the brownies will not help, must learn to help themselves

Some instruments seemed like they were held together with duct tape and prayers. Everything looked out of date.

When life gives you a lemon, thought Teddy, slipping his fingers neatly into the weapon's finger holes, you knock the lemon senseless.

Jon Spiro might have stuff that the military didn't have, but Artemis Fowl had stuff that humans had never seen.

It's like weaving: the weaver does not make the wool, he makes the best use of whatever wool he's given.