Quotes About Resourcefulness

Better to live and sell something from own small shop or handcart in home country than to go abroad to stay or study and do part time job to sell anything from others store or super mart

Mentally weak has a tendency to lick the finger to stick the saliva onto it to flip the page or count the paper currency as they think that they can't do it without the spit.

He is the better equipped for life. As for swimming, who has the less to carry.

I have saved myself—what care I for that shield? Away with it! I'll get another one no worse.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can

HLADE'S LAW: If you have a difficult task give it to a lazy man — he will find an easier way to do it.

Don't force it; get a bigger hammer.

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.

A word of advice for all the aspiring drag queens out there: be resourceful.

After 'Maryada Ramanna,' I wanted to make a quick film on a shoestring budget.

Being poor gets you thinking quicker.

The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.

I think that a lot of us at home are iron chefs in their own right in that we have to come up with meals real quickly.

One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do?

I don't see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn't need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty.

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

I was not a girl who grew up buying $100 candles. I was the girl who ran out of gas on her way to an audition.

My first attempt at a business was a jumble sale which I ran at the end of my next door neighbour's drive. I used to rummage through her garage, looking for anything that I thought people might buy. I'd then set up a table and try to sell what I could to the people walking by.

I tend to scribble down notes, lyrics or just random thoughts on pieces of paper, backs of cigarette packs, sometimes on my shirt cuff.

For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school for architecture, but I had to live, and making furniture was different from designing buildings, which I couldn't do for myself.

I'm not fussy at all; I've been raised to adjust myself in any circumstance.