It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

Let the path be open to talent.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

One thing about ‚Star Wars‘ that I’m really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That’s why I like the ‚Star Wars‘ toys.

I never played with anything like toys.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Imagination decides everything.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

I struggle off the tee. If I can hit my driver straight, then I’m usually playing well.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

I’m very good at what I do, and I don’t turn my hand to something unless I’m very good at it, frankly.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don’t have a toy, they’ll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

I don’t think there’s such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

If he’s got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don’t hire him.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.