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Resource Quotes

What people draw on when the well runs low.

One line flips the usual logic entirely: it's plenty, not scarcity, that ends up wasted. A painter here treats old photographs as raw material rather than finished work, echoed in Support quotes.

The most precious resource we have is time.

Quotes by Adam Neumann

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

Quotes by Thomas Love Peacock

The fact is the U.S. has enormous resource potential available to it.

Quotes by Rex Tillerson

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Quotes by Peter Drucker

Emotion Quotes

The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.

Quotes by Oliver E. Williamson

I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.

Quotes by Mickalene Thomas

Music is not a commodity, it's a resource.

Quotes by Michelle Shocked

Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.

Quotes by Michael Ignatieff

My husband is my most valuable resource.

Quotes by Meg Rosoff

Supply Quotes

History's a resource.

Quotes by Laura Linney

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Quotes by John F. Kennedy

A pupil is a great resource.

Quotes by Hudson Stuck

As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton was an active promoter of increased resource extraction in Latin America, pushing both fracking and the privatization of petroleum production.

Quotes by Greg Grandin

Time is a resource, much like money or autonomy, which can be invaluable or can be squandered.

Quotes by Chris Gabrieli

Support Quotes

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Quotes by Brian Tracy

Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

Quotes by Amory Lovins

You can't be a resource for others unless you nourish yourself.

Quotes by Alexandra Stoddard

Frequently Asked Questions

What angle does this page take on the idea of a resource?
It collects quotes where resource means something beyond raw materials, covering scarcity, creative material like old photographs, music, and patriotism as a kind of national reserve.
What does the line about waste and scarcity mean?
It flips the usual assumption by arguing that plenty, not scarcity, is what actually gets wasted, suggesting abundance makes people careless rather than grateful.
How does a painter use photographs as a resource?
One artist explains they don't think of themselves as a photographer at all, treating their photographs and collages instead as raw material that later feeds into painted work.
Why does a musician say music isn't a commodity?
The quote pushes back against treating music purely as something bought and sold, insisting it functions instead as a resource people draw meaning and support from.
Any recommended reading after this one on resources?
Try Value quotes for more on what people consider worth protecting, or Supply quotes for a practical angle on resources.

A musician insists their art is not a commodity but something deeper, and a closing line names patriotism itself as a nation's hidden resource. Try Supply quotes or Value quotes next.