Quotes About Resourcefulness

Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi.

We didn't have cable TV. We just couldn't afford it. But you don't need cable to watch the Masters. In 1997, at the exact moment I started out, I watched Tiger Woods win the Masters.

Self-reliance is not just words, but deeds.

I work on the motto that if something's not impossible, there must be a way to do it.

Tapping into the ingenuity, resourcefulness, and work ethic of people in Western North Carolina through rural broadband will benefit not just NC-11 but our state and nation.

When I was 20 years old, if you had a $100 bill and a good idea and a strong work ethic, you could start a company.

People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.

We lived near a supermarket, and whatever they threw away, we would get it, and my mother would make soup. Or she would get a big can of lard, a big can of meal, a big can of flour, a big can of beans, and fix the same meal for months.

Once I became the editor of the school newspaper, I had a key to the school, and I went to the school cafeteria and just took the food they threw away.

We were so poor. Every item of clothing came from a thrift store.

I get my clothes from three sources: Target, thrift shops, and friends. It's simple and it's cheap.

Everything in my house was either free or under 40 bucks, and people come to my house and can't believe that I picked up everything on the street or in a thrift shop.

As we settle into 2013, I predict this: We'll see companies that promote this shift from private ownership thrive. More people will be able to access things they simply don't need to own, and they'll save money and live better, cleaner, green lives doing it.

A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day, and I had to show him how to peel a turnip, because the way he was peeling turnips, he was throwing half of it in the garbage. It's not about being cheap. It's about being proper.

Laos is a country where everything is eaten. When I came back, I would find myself chopping parsley and thinking: 'Why am I throwing these stems away? They're perfectly edible.'

Consuming less means throwing away less, while reusing things actually helps to save the planet as well as the pennies.

All of our movies are lower budget, and that makes them more interesting, too: we have to come up with solutions other than throwing money at problems.

I'm good at extending plays and finding throwing lanes.

I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.

You take what's thrown at you, and you make a life out of it.

If you're good at what you do regardless of what is thrown in front of you, you will make it work.

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.

It was in England that I discovered theatre. I didn't have any money, but I would just eat yoghurt in order to get some money for tickets.