Quotes About Resourcefulness

Keep a thing seven years and it's bound to come in handy.

It's no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking. If

a plan executed in less-than-ideal conditions is always better than a plan that wasn't executed at all.

Though you may yourself abound in treasure, teach your son some handicraft; for a heavy purse of gold and silver may run to waste, but the purse of the artisan?s industry can never get empty.

Human intellect is mere smartness that ensures survival.

My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.

he is poor, who has need of another, and has not from himself all things that are useful for life.

He poor, that stands in need of another, and hath not in himself all things needful for this life.

User de ce qu'on a, et agir en tout selon ses forces, telle est la règle du sage.

Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.

Take a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil breaks, you can't sharpen it on the plane, because you can't take knives with you. Therefore: take two pencils.

This is the kind of touch they like: folk art, archaic, made by women, in their spare time, from things that have no further use. A return to traditional values. Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

Some of the best things are done by those with nowhere to turn.

He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster.

Well fiddle dee dee!

building fires in the rain, tracking animals and finding water.

Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

The Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

The way we use technology is completely wasteful. We duplicate many vacuum cleaners, tools; In the future we will make the best of equipment and make it available to everyone.

Just about anyone can pass if they have a home computer and are a quick study.

Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options.