James May Quotes

I'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

Action is just one of my skills.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

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

I'm not in the business of telling people 'DIY or die,' but I do think it's important to be as hands-on with what you're doing as possible.

I take pleasure in discovering resourcefulness inside me.

The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened to realize that although he originally came from a world which had cars and computers and ballet and Armagnac, he didn't, by himself, know how any of it worked. He couldn't do it. Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster. He could just about make a sandwich and that was it.

You don't lack resources. You lack resourcefulness .

When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.

In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.

I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

I'm the type of person that doesn't like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, 'I wish my label would book me some studio time,' if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

I know how to do anything, I'm a mom.

Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

I know that you're better off making your own products, not just waiting for someone to hand you something.

Madame, if it is possible, it has already been done; if impossible, it will be done.

A good head has one hundred hands.

I have no talent. I have nothing to offer.

I genuinely do not even see the stats. It is just about the ability of the individual; what he brings to the table is all that matters.

I'm a very good laundress when I have to be.