Lacey Evans Quotes

I tend to kind of try to use what's in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don't already have.

I grew up learning to do more with less.

A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.

My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.

My personal style comes from jugaad, a Hindi word meaning doing more with less.

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

So I turned these sort of deficiencies into a, a workable thing if you understand what I mean.

I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don't have to be perfect. You can do okay with 'almost.'

My life has always been chaotic. From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there's always a way to achieve your goals.

When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

My father, who was a hair colourist, died when I was young, so my mother had to work very hard. But at the same time, I do believe that if you have everything, it is easy to make a dinner. When you only have flour and water and olives and potatoes, you have to be much more creative, and that's what my mother is all about.

I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.

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

Any free meal is a good meal, you know?

My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.

We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so my mom didn't buy a lot of extras, like sweet things.

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

We'll take what the other team gives us. We'll scratch where it itches.

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

Growing up during the Depression, we didn't have much, but we had each other, we had our friends, and that was pretty much all we needed. I was aware that some people had more, but those who did, shared.