Quotes About Resourcefulness

That was when I knew him before, you understand, when he could just pull stuff like that out of his, uh, hat.

She didn't drop below fifty, and taught that little Fiesta things Ford never intended it to know.

You got the feeling this wasn't a desert because the people didn't allow it to be, but whatever the earth gave, it gave grudgingly.

Life was not fair. If you wanted something you had to take it. Before someone else took it from you. Neatly dissected down to its essence, life was one long series of lily pad hoppings. The quick and the resourceful were able to adapt and survive; all others were simply crushed as a more nimble creature landed on the lily pad they had occupied for too long.

When your only tool is a hammer, so the saying goes, everything looks like a nail.

George Bernard Shaw said that most people who fail complain that they are the victims of circumstances. Those who get on in this world, he said, are those who go out and look for the right circumstances. And if they can't find them they make their own.

I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.

When life gives you lemons you make lemonade. I have several stands.

Most of my creativity happens on the spot no matter where I am

Can be physical, mental, trade skills, wit, savviness etc. All of us each have our own unique ingredients within us and in our lives just waiting to be used for something greater then ourselves

As the saying goes cut off the head of the snake another one grows in its place, so why cut off the head instead just throw the snake in a frying pan and eat the snake

Minho] pulled one of his knives from a pocket and, without missing a beat, cut a big piece of ivy off the wall. He threw it on the ground behind him and kept running. "Bread crumbs?" Thomas asked, the old fairy tale popping into his mind. Such odd glimpses of his past had almost stopped surprising him. "Bread crumbs," Minho replied. "I'm Hansel, you're Gretel.

There are no rules. There are no guidelines. You have few supplies, and there's nothing to help you along the way. Go through the Flat Trans at the time indicated. Find open air. Go one hundred miles, directly north, to the safe haven. Make it or die.

We just need to get through it. Walk fast, but don't look like you know where you're going. We can't afford to carry anything—empty your arms and pockets or we might get attacked. We'll just have to hope we can find things in the Lincoln Building.

Intelligence normally entails two interrelated but somewhat different components. The first involves effective adaptation to an environment.

His eyes measured the little chamber. How two people could survive in so small a space was as difficult to grasp as the conventions in contract bridge. Perhaps there was some simple key that would solve the problem, and he would have the subject of another book.

Rashers, me heart, if it was raining soup, you'd have nothing but a fork.

When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb with a pencil and a ten-cent notebook, and start the whole thing all over again." – Preston Sturges

there's one thing I'm good at, it's lying on my feet. It's sort of a gift I have.

That was my first lesson in real politics. . . . If you are cast on a desert island with only a screwdriver, a hatchet, and a chisel to make a boat with, why, go make the best one you can. It would be better if you had a saw, but you haven't. So with men.

If you are cast on a desert island with only a screwdriver, a hatchet, and a chisel to make a boat with, why, go make the best one you can. It would be better if you had a saw, but you haven't. So with men.

flour and lumber." The entire settlement consisted of a few hundred people, fifteen log cabins, a tavern, a church, a blacksmith, a schoolmaster, a preacher, and a

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are

When he came upon a passage that Struck him, he would write it down on boards if he had no paper & keep it there until he did get paper," she recalled, "and then he would rewrite it" and keep it in a scrapbook so that he could preserve it.