Quotes About Resourcefulness

I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find.

You have to be innovative and creative to make yourself employable.

You sometimes have a very innovative company, and if they come up with one idea, they can come up with many more - if they're successful. If they can't feed themselves, you lose that creativity.

'Castaway' is my favorite movie, and any time I read about a castaway or a story like that, it just interests me a lot.

We were totally confident that we would make it internationally. We had no money or instruments. We used cake tins or bottles with water in them - anything to make sounds.

Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs.

The frozen fish were later put in deep holes in the moss and covered over to keep until they were needed.

Jamie was quick to see a use for the ice sheet.

When he was just 23, Houston took a four-hour bus ride from Boston to New York, planning to use the time to work on a project. But he was stymied, because he forgot to bring the thumb-size hard drive that held his files. Deciding he'd been inconvenienced by this sort of thing for the last time, he wrote the very first lines of Dropbox code during the ride.

During his next visit, my father secretly decided that our bathroom needed towel hooks. Using nails that were too long, my father pierced the door, creating towel hooks on one side, medieval blinding devices on the other...No matter how inconvenient a household malfunction might be, Kazem can always make it worse, for free.

I believe humans get a lot done, not because we're smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee.

The New Testament writings all presuppose that the fallen human race and the equally fallen created order are sick unto death beyond human resourcefulness.

GidiÅŸat böyle dedi. Yaln?zca gereksinim duyduklar?n? al. Geyik al?yorsan, en iyisini alma. En küçük ve en yavaÅŸ olan?n? seç, o zaman geyik daha güçlü olur ve her zaman sana et verir. Pa-koh (panter) bunu biliyor. Sen de bilmelisin!

a man who has a head and hands is seldom left long in a state of destitution.

It has made me what I am. When every door is closed, one learns to climb through windows. Human nature, I suppose.

Saracen had finished his barley and was happily chewing at the corner of a sheet that had been spread across a hedge to dry. He had once discovered a tablecloth, and ever since had been optimistic about the effects of dragging cloths off the top of things.

You know, that's a really beautiful bow," Neverfell interrupted suddenly. "Did you make it?" "Found it, mended it, modified it," was the curt reply.

Maybe it's because growing up in Indiana we didn't have very much, so I never got used to counting on having things. I guess we were poor, but we didn't know that. We were just like all our other neighbors in West Baden and French Lick--just trying to get by.

Constraint inspires creativity

Opportunity is manufactured

Hunter he had these big tins of crushed pineapple that he'd gotten from the army,' Garcia said, 'and i had this glove compartment full of plastic spoons, and we had this little cooperative scene, eating this crushed pineapple day after day and sleeping in the cars and walking around.

I was a poor kid. My mom saved money by shopping at the Army-Navy Surplus store, but I felt stupid going to kindergarten dressed as a Chinese General.

The best way to do something 'lean' is to gather a tight group of people, give them very little money, and very little time.

When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.