Fred Rogers Quotes

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

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

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

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.

I work in response to the limitations of any situation and in relationship to what's possible.

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

It's not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness .

A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.

It's not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.

Instead of saying, ah, I don't have the money, just embrace it and do what we can do. And the scenes that we film and the characterizations in the scenes can come out interesting. And I really feel good about that, going into it.

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.

But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

There is no facet of my professional life that doesn't require or request improvisation.

It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.

Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.

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

It comes down to the difference between what you were planning to do and what life throws at you and you have to end up doing. The one who knows how to improvise is the one who comes out ahead.

You are not always going to be able to knock it and run. You are going to have to use the other foot, mix things up, use the brain.

My folks were very practical. They were also kind of able to think outside of the box. They were not going to let circumstance paralyze them. They knew sometimes you just had to take some new initiative. I think they passed that on to all of us... If you don't find a way, you make one.

But I'm the type of person who, whatever you throw at me, I can make something out of it.

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.

You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.