Resourcefulness is about coming up with clever ways to solve problems
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Resourceful is the opposite of hapless
- What would someone who was the opposite of hapless be like? They’d be relentlessly resourceful. Not merely relentless. That’s not enough to make things go your way except in a few mostly uninteresting domains. In any interesting domain, the difficulties will be novel. Which means you can’t simply plow through them, because you don’t know initially how hard they are; you don’t know whether you’re about to plow through a block of foam or granite. So you have to be resourceful. You have to keep trying new things. Paul Graham
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Life is a test of resourcefulness
- While no one is expected to leap tall buildings in a single bound, our aspiring heroes will be tested on their courage, integrity, self- sacrifice, compassion and resourcefulness – the stuff of all true superheroes. Stan Lee
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Living in the wild is a test of resourcefulness
- The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it. Bear Grylls
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We are resourceful by nature
- The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully. Rebecca Solnit
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Resourcefulness is a virtue that opens the door to greater accomplishment
- Resourcefulness is not a means of coping with deprivation; it can be a virtue that opens the door to greater accomplishment. John Baldoni
- Virtue, Achievement
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Detached mindfulness aids resourcefulness
- A moment of stopping, turning inside, checking yourself out, noticing how you feel, and observing your thoughts without buying into them, is a profoundly significant moment. It will give you the power to act from a resourceful, skilled place. Sally Kempton
- Mindfulness
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Mutual co-operation and inquiry aids resourcefulness
- If we regard truth as something handed down from authorities on high, the classroom [or office] will look like a dictatorship. If we regard truth as a fiction determined by personal whim, the classroom will look like anarchy. If we regard truth as emerging from a complex process of mutual inquiry, the classroom will look like a resourceful and interdependent community. Parker J. Palmer
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Aim to be resourceful, not specialised
- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. Robert Heinlein
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Final thoughts
- Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful. Jeff Bezos
- You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea – O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end. Karel Capek
- Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies. Richard Le Gallienne
- If you want to accomplish something, you must research it thoroughly to make sure you know of all the ways to accomplish it. That increases the chances that you can find a way that will work for you. John T. Reed
- So much of our human resourcefulness comes from having multiple ways to describe the same situations—so that each one of those different perspectives may help us to get around the deficiencies of the other ones. Marvin Minsky
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On a lighter note
- Even the most resourceful housewife cannot create miracles from a rice less pantry. Chinese Proverb
- Anybody who has any doubt about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one. George Meany
- There’s nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot. Scott Adams
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