Guy Martin Quotes

Sometimes I think I take on a lot of work but that's me.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

I always look at a group of people who want to attempt an enterprise greater than their means. They begin on this enterprise and they fail.

I knew I wanted to play 'Dr Cox' really bad, which is always a huge mistake because as soon as you want something really bad, maybe you rip up a little bit.

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

I got ideas above my station, and I made mistakes.

I always have a tendency to take on too many things.

Whoever prematurely begins a work that is above his strength receives nothing, but only brings harm upon himself.

I think my biggest career mistake has been taking on too much. And I think this is kind of - I think it's related to the Internet world, where you're always multitasking and you have a million windows open and you feel like you can do a lot at the same time.

Sometimes I feel like just to get all my own work done would be great. You always feel like you're behind, and they're six other things that you wish you could get to but you can't.

I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.

My to-do list is so long that it doesn't have an end; it has an event horizon.

You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.

Good Lord - if I couldn't multitask, I don't know what I'd do.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.

Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.

Even I admit I may have peaked too soon.

I want to do everything. That's my problem.

It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

If you want this job too much you may not be any good at it.

I'm a happy human being when I'm overloaded with stuff to do, but I got stuff to do.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

There's a tendency in this Hollywood machinery to take on too much. You end up not being able to give everything you want.