Quotes About Resourcefulness

When life gets you down, make a comforter!

when life gives you lemons. Make yourself a screwdriver

Flexibility - In all aspects of life, the person with the most varied responses 'wins'.

Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.

How lucky my life is that I have two arms, and two legs, and ten fingers with which to make things out of wood.

Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining.

While the women in Alaska certainly knew they were physically weaker than most men, it never meant they weren't cleaver enough to find a way to get the job done

Well, necessity is the motherfucker of invention, man.

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

Life is more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

If life gives you limes make margaritas.

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

I've heard of women who started beauty parlors in a spare room, or thrift shops, or who took courses to become real-estate brokers. Others have special talents or college training that they can put to use on a part-time basis. Any woman can start a childcare center.

Life isn't fair," he whispered. "Sometimes, you just have to make the most of what you've got.

A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.

Aye, well, we all play the cards we're dealt." "Some of us do. Some of us kill men with better cards and play theirs instead.

if her hands were full and she was wearing pants with no pockets.

This was not the way of longest friend. Everything meant something to her. Everything was of use to her. Or to be made of use. To be stored away for utility at some future opportunistic date.

You have got to play the game with the cards that have been dealt to you, and it is of no use for you to bewail your fate because you don't hold different ones. Look them over, arrange them, and play. You certainly must play them before you will get any others, and you need never expect to have other people's cards.

Camille didn't know how to cook, so she had stopped in at Goubetzkoï's and bought an assortment of tarama , salmon, marinated fish and onion chutneys. They filled all the great-uncle's little bowls with painstaking care, and to reheat the blinis on the hot plate they fashioned an ingenious sort of toaster from an old lid and some tinfoil.

At this period, too, Leningraders resorted to their most desperate food substitutes, scraping dried glue from the underside of wallpaper and boiling up shoes and belts. (Tannery processes had changed, they discovered, since the days of Amundsen and Nansen, and the leather remained tough and inedible.)