Quotes About Resourcefulness

When I started competing, I was so broke that I had to tie my helmet with a piece of string. On one jump, the string snapped, and my helmet carried on farther than I did. I may have been the first ski jumper ever beaten by his gear.

I'm pragmatic. I like efficiency. I want to read what's in front of me and not have my hands tied.

It's more frugal to wear ties that are given to you.

Because of the excellent training in Malayalam cinema, where we have very tight budgets, you are forced to make it work in a small budget and at the same time you have to tell the story effectively.

The point is that both people involved understand they are using one another to improve their access to resources, broaden their professional connections, and create mutually beneficial opportunities.

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.

Honesty consists not in never stealing but in knowing where to stop in stealing, and how to make good use of what one does steal.

Nothing will ever die so long as it knows what to do under the circumstances, in other words so long as it knows its business.

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

Long as you're healthy, Bellona is great. But there's no doctors or nothing, you know?

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

No disgrace to be poor," as Mrs. Starwood says, "but cussed unhandy.

I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show.

A paucity of material can open up just as many possibilities.

I'm sort of like a T. rex in the world of female actresses. Every time a job is finished, I look at my car and think, 'Could I live in it?

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.

Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.

People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are there to use all the time

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.

Always keep bobby pins on hand. It's amazing what you can do with those in a time crunch.

I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spent all my free time.

Somebody said, 'Roger doesn't know how to spend money.' And I thought, 'I don't spend money because I don't have it!' If I had it, I could spend money! That's about the only time I was told that!

I Xeroxed my watch. Now I have time to spare.

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.