Quotes About Resourcefulness

Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.

I think that a boat big enough to carry lots of food and spares could circle the globe several times, relying only on rain.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago

Just set up the board as best you can. We'll play with whatever we got.

I tried not to smile as I gathered the marbles. After counting them out by color and placing them into the holes, I looked at Sapphire and shrugged. 'There aren't enough.' Miz Obee's face tensed, but Sapphire looked at her friend kindly, patted the table, and said, 'Just set up the board as best you can. We'll play with whatever we got.' I thought that was one of the wisest things I'd ever heard anyone say.

I'm going to do what any self-respecting English major would do: pull something out of my ass.

Pull yourself together and use what you have.

Frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

The survivor is the one who improvises, not follows, the rules.

Teach a man to fish and he will eat forever. Give a man a fish and he will expect free tartar sauce.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

Lincoln said that cultivating even 'the smallest quantity' of ground bred freedom and independence. 'Ere long the most valuable of all arts, will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community whose every member possesses this art, can ever be the victim of oppression of any of its forms. Such community will be alike independent of crowned-kings, money-kings, and land-kings.

One organism's trash is another organism's treasure, as I like to say.

Integrity, resourcefulness, and agility

Ueck's job was protect Bob Kuban, and the band that was playing in left field. They took a break. Roger Craig said, 'Ueck, why don't you grab a tuba?' He dropped his glove, grabbed the tuba, and caught about five balls in it. I remember [Cardinals general manager] Bob Howsam sent him a bill for $116 after the World Series for damage to the tuba.

They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

When I have nothing worthwhile to wear, I pick up my dad's clothes at the last minute.

If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

I started doing some demos and got online and bought a refurbished laptop, bought a microphone off of eBay. A lot of folks said you can't really do it that way at a pro level, but I did some vocals that way, turned it into the label and they said, 'Wow, where did you record this? The vocals sound great!'

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.

My brother Shane and I used to spar with each other in the kitchen. We didn't have gloves, so we wrapped tea towels around our hands.

Being resourceful and creating is a big part of my Lithuanian culture. My grandfather is part of who I am, too. He was a professional wrestler. He had a very functional, very slick, long frame.