Quotes About Resourcefulness

call it chicken salad

I just do the best I can under the circumstances.

The thing about Wes, Delia said to me, unwrapping another package of turkey, is that he thinks he can fix anything. And if he can't fix it, he can at least do something with the pieces of what's broken.

He thinks he can fix anything. And if he can't fix it, he can at least do something with the pieces of what's broken.

If I find a cow turd on my front steps, I'm not satisfied knowing that I'll be mentally prepared to find some future cow turd. I want to shovel that turd onto my garden and hope the cow returns every week so I never have to buy fertilizer again.*

Or maybe you wouldn't mind lending me a few of your dresses until I can find a seamstress in town? You haven't exactly been wearing your clothes lately, so I'm sure you won't miss them!

Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life – facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential.

The musher's motto has always been Drive the dogs you have, not the dogs someone else has.

One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.

All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg.

Horace normally didn't need anyone else to save his life. He was pretty skilled at doing it for himself.

You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get.

I spent my entire life working with the smallest budget I could get. Just working with old, junky, donated equipment. The only things I bought myself were the trumpet and the $9 ukulele.

We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.

They needed the numbers, so they directed their creativity and resourcefulness toward getting those numbers, rather than toward effective performance.

You cannot make chicken salad out of Chicken shit.

What mean we by genius, but the power of accomplishing great things without the means generally reputed necessary to that end?

Isen wasn't a two birds with one stone kind of guy. More like one stone, two birds, a rabbit, a fox, and maybe that deer will trip over the fox and we can get him, too.

I have never known anyone with less money and less visible means of getting hold of it. He had slept around everywhere, from the floors of friends' studios, to the Metro. There were days when he had literally no money at all, and after a string of such days he would go to the blood bank and sell his blood. More often than not he spent this money on tickets to the ballet.

Like hungry chickens, when we cannot be fed what we need, we feed ourselves what we can find.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of a field in hope that the cow will back up to them

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

Geniuses are their own saviors.

The defining factor [for success] is never resources; it's resourcefulness.