Varun Sharma Quotes

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.

One day, my bike tire broke miles from home and I found a way to fix it. That's what I learned: Even if you don't have all the tools, you can improvise.

Actually, everyone in India does some jugaad in their lives, whether in school, college, marriages, work etc. And most of us have different jugaads for different situations.

My mother could make something out of nothing - and everything started from scratch.

If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!

One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I have developed skills I did not think were possible - bathing with a cup of water by candlelight, for instance, and writing a story with a headlamp on.

You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.

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.

Wallace and Gromit's contraptions are created purely for gags, but we all have the urge to invent - especially children. If they're bored, kids will make something from cardboard boxes, yoghurt pots, tape and elastic bands. Often, those constructions are the best.

Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high.

Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.

I always try to take the unexpected things and make them work for me.

We didn't have money for toys, so I made my own.

There is always a way to get what you need, and I really believe in taking what you have to make what you need.

Often when you have less to work with, you do more.

Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.

I can't remember exactly the first thing I wrote, but one of the stories, was about a pilot whose plane crashed on a desert island, and the only other life on the island was a brown cow with yellow spots. The cow had... to survive, had taught itself to eat and get nutriments from sand. I guess, I've always been interested in adaptability and taking whatever life hands you and running with it.

Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

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

I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could.

Out of economic hardship can come change - we are suddenly cast onto our wits and our talents and our resources and our strengths, as we lose all the choices we once had.

I just find things that work and embellish them.