Quotes About Resourcefulness

As the economist Ludwig von Mises put it centuries later, "If the tailor goes to war against the baker, he must henceforth bake his own bread.")

If the tailor goes to war against the baker, he must henceforth bake his own bread

I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.

Life is a shit sandwich. But if you've got enough bread, you don't taste the shit.

We are not helpless. Even in the rubble of the most broken-down lives, useful weapons might still be found.

You must shepherd your limited resources carefully. Seeing is very difficult, so you must choose what to see, and let the rest go.

countries don't win wars just by being braver than the other side, or freer, or slightly preferred by God. The winners are usually the guys who get 5% fewer of their planes shot down, or use 5% less fuel, or get 5% more nutrition into their infantry at 95% of the cost. That's not the stuff war movies are made of, but it's the stuff wars are made of. And there's math every step of the way. —

Cuando esté en un callejón sin salida, salga por donde entró".

Elimden gelse seninle sekiz yüz elli iki bin kilometre hiç durmadan konuÅŸurdum. -Bu kadar yola nas?l benzin yetiÅŸtiririz? -Gider gibi yapar?z.

I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish, chicken. But at the end of the month - because my father would be waiting for paycheck - the refrigerator would get empty. I remember that without a lot of food left, some of the best meals happened right there.

I have but ninepence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

You can't pull yourself up your bootstraps if you have no boots.

One night, in the warehouse of a grocery chain, I saw some egg-stealing rats at work. They worked in pairs. A small rat would straddle an egg and clutch it in his four paws. When he got a good grip on it, he'd roll over on his back. Then a bigger rat would grab him by the tail and drag him across the floor to a hole in the baseboard, a hole leading to a burrow.

Hey, you've discovered a new way to fetch water for the elders!" Hazeltail put in.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

She did it to get the extra food vouchers from the government every month. Most of the time, I had to find food on my own.

Why bother looking up the solution online? Why try to figure the problem out on your own when you could have someone else do your thinking for you?

The trappings of civilization are soon cast aside in the face of stern realities, and given the barest opportunity of winning food and shelter, man can live and even find his laughter ringing true

We had two tins of Virol, which we were keeping for an emergency; but, finding ourselves in need of an oil-lamp to eke out our supply of candles, we emptied one of the tins in the manner that most appealed to us, and fitted it with a wick made by shredding a bit of canvas. When

Blessed is the Second mouse for he shall inherit the Cheese.

A basic theme for the anarch is how man, left to his own devices, can defy superior forces – whether state, society, or the elements – by making use of their rules without submitting to them. 'It is strange,' Sir William Parry wrote when describing the igloos on Winter Island, 'it is strange to think that all these measure are taken against the cold – and in houses of ice.

An empty belly is the best cook.

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

William Faulkner was once asked how he went about writing a book. His answer: "It's like building a chicken coop in a high wind. You grab any board or shingle flying by or loose on the ground and nail it down fast." Like becoming a pastor.