Quotes about Resourcefulness

You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want using whatever life gives you along the way.

I often advise young brides who are traveling during their first weeks or months of marriage to start "homemaking" in a hotel, even if they are there for only a night, rather than groaning about having to "wait so long to have a home". How? ...Your own cloth, your own candlestick, just one rose or daffodil is enough to make a difference... You will be surprised how much difference it makes to have done something to make a room your home, even for one night.

And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail.

No scrap of paper bigger than my smallest punch shall be thrown away.

When life throws you lemons, make orange juice. It will leave them wondering how the hell you did that.

Thus spoke St. Alia-of-the-Knife: "The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth endure. For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness.

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you're forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch.

I hate how many people think "glass half-empty" when their glass is really four-fifths full. I'm grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.

You have to be able to improvise. You have to be able to pick up opportunities that come along.