Quotes About Resourcefulness

When you are playing 'Survivor', getting a shelter up immediately is the most important thing.

You know, the one thing I've learnt or value from back in the day is the restraint and discipline you get when you're limited by technology and equipment.

In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights.

There seems to be a theme running through the women I play. They take their circumstances and try to make the best of them.

You don't need a lot of money to live a full life—all you need is a fertile mind, some books and a good attitude. Books are free at the library, but a fertile mind takes practice.

In different places, survival requires different things, based on the environment. Capacity for survival may be the ability to be changed by environment.

Whatever the wording, all our justifications for failure focus on "why it can't be done," rather than on "what else I can do." To

he gave it explicit thought, and some of his provocations and offensive behavior were intended to free his circle, as needed, from enslaving admiration. And yet that particular trap cannot help but make itself known in the relation between serious student and accomplished teacher, and it is a measure of the student's resourcefulness, once the trap is recognized, to free oneself without losing an ounce of regard for the teacher.

As for me, I'll do what I do best. I'll lie, cheat, steal, and survive!

Necessity and desperation birth resourcefulness.

I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade...and try to find someone whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

If I was as rich as a Rockerfeller I'd be Richer than Rockefeller, because I'd do a bit of window cleaning on the side.

While in prison, I received a dictionary. It was sent to me with a note. This is the book I would take to a deserted island.

north. The stars had blazed low over the curving hills. Her father had dropped them off hungry, to make them hunt for their food. Sharpening a stick, she had waited in the rushes.

As a librarian I learned one of life's great truths: you don't have to know all the answers, you just have to know where to find them.

There's that common expression that goes: Don't bring a knife to a gunfight. But a knife is better than nothing.

Don't leave your home without a notebook, paper scraps, something to write with. * Don't walk into the world without your eyes and ears focused and open. * Don't make excuses about what you don't have or what you would do if you did, use that energy to 'find a way, make a way.

In any career, whether as a surgeon, a musician, or a secretary, one needs to have a confidence that says, "I can do anything, and if I can't do it, I know how to get help.

O que a tornava superior e lhe dava probabilidade de triunfo, era a arte de acomodar-se às circunstâncias do momento e a toda a casta de espíritos, arte preciosa, que faz hábeis os homens e estimáveis as mulheres.

The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a well-developed sense of independence.

Don't depend on heaven for food, but on your own two hands carrying the load.

The trickster is not a trickster by nature. He is a trickster by necessity.

If you have time to whine then you have time to find solution.