Quotes About Resourcefulness

Getting silver and gold out of junk machinery was quick to be learnt by others.

The virtues of resourcefulness, self-composure, patience, hardiness, not to mention a sense of humour, were prized as highly as those of bravery, aggressiveness, and raw martial rigour.

Cuando nos enfrentemos a un problema de difícil solución quizá resulte fructífero preguntarnos: '¿Qué haría un microbio?

My mauma was shrewd. She didn't get any reading and writing like me. Everything she knew came from living on the scarce side of mercy.

So a military force has no constant formation, water has no constant shape: the ability to gain victory by changing and adapting according to the opponent is called genius.

16.  While heading the profit of my counsel, avail yourself also of any helpful circumstances over and beyond the ordinary rules. 17.  According as circumstances are favorable, one should modify one's plans.

to be well-fed while the enemy is famished: — this is the art of husbanding one's strength.

Et quand j'ai remporté une bataille, je ne répète pas ma tactique, mais je réponds aux circonstances selon une variété infinie de voies.

The heading meansliterally The Nine Variations, but as SunTzu does not appear to enumerate these, and as, indeed, he hasalready told us (V SS. 6-11) that such deflections from theordinary course are practically innumerable, we have little optionbut to follow Wang Hsi, who says that Nine stands for anindefinitely large number.

Flexibility in our lives means having a fundamental ability to relate to any new environment and excel in it.

Miss Frumkin rummaged through her bag looking for a spoon. She seemed to be aware that there was no spoon in the bag, but she insisted on rummaging anyway. Finding no spoon, she took out her toothbrush and began to eat the yogurt with the toothbrush. Miss O'Reilly laughed at her. Miss Frumkin didn't seem to mind. "They laughed at Bell and they laughed at Edison," she said, throwing the toothbrush into the wastebasket. She finished eating the yogurt with her fingers.

provide energy on the days the sun could not. The batteries were old

He made 'a new art of multilateral diplomacy,' adds Urquhart, by his skill, stamina, and resourcefulness: 'He gave a fresh dimension to the task of international service by the qualities of his mind and of his compassionate nature.

pie at the Red Lion, which cost pennies that they didn't have. The boys went off to play in the field at the back of the market garden with Martin Clackett, leaving Sue and Evie in peace to work. Evie watched and learned as her grandmother turned Josie Lambert's vast garment into

Poverty iz the stepmother ov genius.

To walk a thorny road, we may cover its every inch with leather or we can make sandals. Anger.

You did what you had to do." He started,sure he had heard her wrong. "Oh,don't mistake me, I have no more liking for being staked out like a goat than would the next person. Still, it was a good plan, all things considered.

Si te dan papel pautado, utiliza el otro lado.

Es una maravilla la capacidad para ligar piñas perdidas, desenfundar a destiempo y llamar a los bomberos cuando estás colgado de la cornisa en el último piso.

There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.

The word jugaad means a lot to us Indians.

It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.

I love the ingenuity of British entrepreneurs.

In Maine, there is a deeply ingrained sense that you can always get a little more use out of something.