Quotes About Resourcefulness

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

He who will travel far spares his steed.

Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible.

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.

Money doesn't grow on trees but it does hang out in lakes

Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

God doesn't need a lot to do a lot. All David had was five stones. And all David used was one.

If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant we ran rather than loitered.

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.

How did this happen? How did we start up a nation from nothing and transform it into a nation of start-ups? The answer lies in a paradox: having nothing was at once our greatest challenge and our greatest blessing of all. Without natural resources, our hopes were tied to our own creativity.

Besides its content and methods, the cuisine devised by squaws and hillbilly women, as well as slave women, had another thing in common, which was the belief that you made do with whatever you could lay hands on--pigs' entrails, turnip tops, cowpeas, terrapins, catfish--anything that didn't bite you first.

Muskie, Lindsay, Humphrey, and Jackson were pouring about half a million dollars each into the campaign. In the end, I would spend less than $10,000. It was all I had; there was no alternative to depending on volunteers.

He had been on operations alongside his British counterparts and said that although American special forces teams had access to more resources, such as equipment, planes and satellites, the British were especially good because they endlessly ran through war-game scenarios. They practised, over and over. They prepared. 'Then when it all goes south,' said the American admiringly, 'they really know what to do.

The trick to surviving with low funds is to not have such high standards.

You see people in torn dresses, lying down and getting up in ramshackle cabins, but who knows what they may have in their cupboards? Who knows?

Challenges cultivate ingenuity

We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.

You can do a lot with Scotch tape. Almost anything! I love that you can hem a dress, and its an instant remedy in a fashion crises.

She shook her head. 'We may be a small town, Detective Jackson, but we can walk and chew gum at the same time.

Knowing how to get out of a bad situation may be the rarest of all speculative gifts.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

if you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself