Scott Weiss Quotes

Nevertheless during these two seasons, Chapman impressed me a lot because he had the faculty to pull himself out of the most critical situations.

You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.

You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.

I've learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life.

It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart.

I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.

When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.

Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.

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

In movies and TV, we tend to fall into tropes about how characters might get out of problems. But when you look at real life, you realize that there is a lot of drama of not being able to get out of the problems.

Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.

A lot can be accomplished with current resources if we don't stand around wringing our hands because of lack of funding or complex requirements.

I not only use all the brains I have but I borrow what I can from everyone about me.

We rarely think to mark the trail for others to follow. 'Live and learn,' we say, acknowledging the value of experience. We usually forget about 'Live and teach.'

Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.

Whenever there is a big difficulty, I don't make excuses. Instead, I say I will solve it even if everybody leaves.

I'm comfortable with bad news. I feel confident in my ability to solve the problem if I know that there's a problem.

Human beings are very good at adapting to what happens.

When you got competition, it makes people think outside the box.

All I have are my experiences, and I like to share my experiences to see if people could learn from them.

I'm a resourceful guy!

My biggest satisfaction was to learn, inexperienced as I was, that it is possible to find ways out of the deepest difficulties.

Having a wheel mentality is paramount. It gives you time and space.

I have always been able to handle situations well once they've happened to me.

You can't really learn, not in car racing. You have to make your own mistakes.