Quotes About Resourcefulness

Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

I'd take garbage, and I'd glue them together and create inventions.

My parents taught me many of the things that people need in life to feel confident: practical things, such as managing finances, mucking out the goat barn, cleaning a house, doing repairs, mending a broken roof or a toilet.

I took my son to an exhibition about inventing things, and he was so inspired he started collecting toilet rolls and empty bottles for his own 'inventions.'

The only reason I'd bring a Bible out here is if I needed toilet paper.

If you're embarking around the world in a hot-air balloon, don't forget the toilet paper.

When I started as a color man in the booth with CBS, I would make footballs out of a roll of toilet paper.

I haven't got a Cadillac. I've got a subway token.

Her mother had always emphasized that life was what you made of it, but Flora couldn't help thinking that what you made depended on the raw ingredients you were given. Even the best chef couldn't do much with moldy vegetables.

Sevarin had been dismissive about the chance of finding out anything useful from the cops, but when it came to getting information, I had an edge he didn't. Sevarin did not make a killer lasagne.

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

Look for smart ways around a problem or faster ways to resolve them. Make effective use of the people around you instead of assuming you have to do everything yourself.

Oh gods, Jean. Take a false name wherever we end up. Tavrin Callas is good. Let the bastard pop up all over the place.

Oh, just let it out. I don't care how it looks; it'll be hidden in the back of my cloak anyway. We can pretty it up later." "We?" Jean snorted as he loosened the doublet with a few strategic rips and slashes. "Me, more like. You mend clothes like dogs write poetry.

he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and thread

Two men are in a public bathroom, in adjoining stalls. One man calls over to the other, "Hey, there's no toilet paper in this stall, do you have any over there?" The second man replies, "No, sorry, I don't have any, either." The first man asks, "Well, do you have a newspaper?" The second man says, "No, sorry." The first man pauses then asks, "Do you have change for a twenty?

His raider captain, Tellor, stood beside him at the command center more accurately described as a table one of the junior personnel had scavenged. Resourceful

When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.

You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can't invent more time.