Quotes About Resourcefulness

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

People will use anything that comes to hand when they're fighting for their lives—or for someone else's.

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.

Camping has become one of my most beloved pastimes. I take a fierce delight in swinging a pak o my back or into a canoe and heading for the hills or lakes. In my opinion, camping can be the greatest expression of free will, personal independence, innate ability, and resourcefulness possible today in our industrialized, urbanized existence. Regardless of how miserable or how splendid the circumstances, the sheer experience of camping seems a total justification for doing it.

Necessity breeds solution.

They learned the lesson the ants have down pat: Don't wait to be forced to quit to start exploring alternatives.

If you're ever in a jam, a crayon scrunched up under your nose makes a good pretend mustache.

Programmers can be lazy.

When we were in D.C. my daddy used to cut his hair with a bowl. Crucial. If you're African, Haitan, Jamaican or even more poor than the people in the project, you'll know about that.

It's not always about money, we got Hull promoted with a collection of loans and waifs and strays.

I eat an egg every morning, and when I'm done, I almost always have the thought: 'There. Now even if I'm captured and starved, I'll be able to live off the protein of that egg for a while.'

I had to look for food all the time. I had to catch dragonflies, grasshoppers, and that was the only source of protein for me.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

it doesn't matter if the cat is black or white as long as it catches the mouse

He was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American - that comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work in youth and, even more, with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games.

He was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American — that comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work or rigid sitting in youth and, even more, with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games.

But the brilliance, the versatility of madness is akin to the resourcefulness of water seeping through, over, and around a dike.

He was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American—

It was the story of her life and probably how she had survived this long: with a little talent and a lot of flair.

Reducir las necesidades al mínimo, para no depender en nada de los demás.

I told you you could hang around and work for food, she said, if you don't mind sleeping in that car yonder. Why listen, Lady, he said with a grin of delight, the monks of old slept in their coffins! They wasn't as advanced as we are, the old woman said.

You can find my book at your favorite bookstore, and if it isn't there, find a new favorite.

All of us in Canada have to be better at making a dollar count, because we have fewer dollars.

I always, as a firm rule, make my movies based on how inexpensively I can make them because that means the more freedom I'm going to have.