Quotes About Resourcefulness

When we built Amblin, we even put Murphy beds in there because we thought that was so practical. Why would anybody, if you were working on something, need to go home at night? You'd just stay there, wake up in the morning, and carry on.

My folks were very practical. They were also kind of able to think outside of the box. They were not going to let circumstance paralyze them. They knew sometimes you just had to take some new initiative. I think they passed that on to all of us... If you don't find a way, you make one.

You wouldn't expect it to look at him, but in a life-threatening situation you should always turn to Phillip Schofield. On a desert island he would be perfect. Phil is very practical and would build you an amazing shack as well as keep you entertained with all his hundreds of stories.

I see my practice as picture making. Whatever is available, I use.

It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

When people are coming to Krakow and we show them how and where we practice, they are like, 'Seriously? Are you kidding me?' But we're always saying that what matters about the courts - the lines, the nets - are the same. I'm practicing in Poland even when I don't have good facilities.

I have always been the kind of guy to adjust to anything. I never cared where I was going to sleep or what court I was going to practise on.

My mother is deeply pragmatic by nature. Perhaps you had to be, as an immigrant. You made do.

I don't work with a lot of preparation. I think very well on my feet, and I'm very good when the pressure is on.

My dad said, 'If no one was giving me acting work, I'd have to be prepared to create it myself.'

One Christmas I had no money, and so I went home and just, like, wrote a poem; I mean, I didn't write them, but I just handed out poems as Christmas presents. Like, 'Here's a Pablo Neruda poem that really made me think of you.'

I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question.

I'm pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.

Peyton's pretty good at figuring stuff out.

I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me.

Often in fighting, you get dealt certain cards and that's what you have to work with.

Basketball, you're not always going to have your best, but you find ways. If I'm not shooting well, I can pass, I can play defense. There's other things I can do. I can take that to golf.

To me, DIY means minimizing dependency on what others make for me.

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.

When you've got hardly any equipment, very little money and no access to any information, your sound is very much dictated by you, your setup and what you're listening to. Nothing more.

My mom couldn't afford dance shoes, so she put me in these old cowboy boots with a hard bottom so I could get some sound out. I used them for seven months. When I finally got real tap shoes, I was nervous. I kept moving my feet, thinking, 'Oh, so this is how it's supposed to sound.'

I love Sugru like I love duct tape. I basically just compensated for lack of building skills with Sugru.

Everybody has stories about using duct tape. Of course, most don't try to lift a car with it.