Quotes About Resourcefulness

Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.

The act of shopping for what he needed, and of setting up the bare necessities for himself, had lulled Strike back into the familiar soldierly state of doing what needed to be done, without question or complaint.

Like foxes to a dustbin,

Biros mostly. Whatever's around."' Waldegrave

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. —Thomas Edison

who can draw something of value from any situation have a tendency to do better and remain healthier than those who cannot.

We learned to make money work for us. By not getting paid for our work at the store, we were forced to use our imaginations to identify an opportunity to make money.

What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task.

she'd found she couldn't bring herself to kill any of her bees, which was the system all the northern demesnes used, and so had to get them through the winter somehow. She'd been cold that winter herself, after wrapping up her most exposed hives in all the blankets she had.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.' Like I

When you're doing all you can and "what more?" seems an impossible task, try thinking differently, step outside your box, and open your mind to solutions that were there all the time. Solutions you just couldn't see. Act

When there is no real hope we must mint our own

The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research.

There are three things this virus is doing that blow me away," said Brooks, marveling at the resourcefulness and agility of his adversary. "The first is that it directly infects the endothelial cells that line our blood vessels. I'm not aware of any other respiratory viruses that do this. This causes a lot of havoc.

The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one.

Waste not, want not, make do and mend, don't make an exhibition of yourself.

Billy was a hardscrabble country boy, maybe forty years old, lean and furtive, like a fox and a squirrel had a kid, and spent half the time baking it in the sun, and the other half beating it with a stick.

Waste not, want not, make do and mend, don't make an exhibition

Like they say in England, why buy a dog and bark yourself?' Back

A visitor from outer space would assume the viability of the United States depended entirely on the ability of the citizenry to carry eight-by-four sheets of board, safely and in vast quantities.

Reacher always arranged the smallest details in his life so he could move on at a split second's notice. It was an obsessive habit. He owned nothing and carried nothing. Physically he was a big man, but he cast a small shadow and left very little in his wake.

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