Quotes About Resourcefulness

As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting.

The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.

A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.

Remember, no matter what life throws at us, we can always bake a cake!

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

You will rarely have things go the way you planned. Just remember you're objective and keep on moving in that direction. Make do with what resources you have and deliver the agreed upon result anyway. It will set you apart from most of the rest.

Indeed, until one tries it for himself, it is incredible what dignity there is in an old hat, what virtue in a time-worn coat, and how savory the dinner-table can be made without sirloin steaks and cranberry tarts.

You make a movie for 9k for the freedom it allows you.

Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.

And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail.

You can avoid having ulcers by adapting to the situation: If you fall in the mud puddle, check your pockets for fish.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea.

Save a tree. Eat a beaver.

When life gives you scraps, make something with them.

No scrap of paper bigger than my smallest punch shall be thrown away.

When life throws you scraps, make a quilt.

Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.

Recipe: A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don't own, to make a dish the dog wouldn't eat.

When life throws you lemons, make orange juice. It will leave them wondering how the hell you did that.

Mater artium necessitas [Necessity is the mother of invention].

Anything can be lived around, so long as it's only you who has to do it.