Tarana Burke Quotes

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.

We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

God forgives those who invent what they need.

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

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Necessity, the mother of invention

Necessity is the mother of invention.

The most healthy way to be creative is to work with what you have and not sit around wishing you had something different.

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.

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

I take pleasure in discovering resourcefulness inside me.

I was a big jugaadoo.

When you cannot have something, you make what you have work.

I did the utility thing at first out of necessity to find a place on the team.

Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

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

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

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

You don't lack resources. You lack resourcefulness .

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.

You have to use what you have to get what you want.