If you’re a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don’t understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

I’m not really an actor, I’m a reactor; I’m a pitchman. That’s what I do best. Nobody can do it any better.

Aside from singing, I’m also a dancer. I’ve been dancing since I was 8.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

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.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.

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.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

All great achievements require time.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Well done is better than well said.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

I think any activity you have your kids in, you’re all trying to live vicariously through them. And you’re jealous of the kid that’s naturally more talented or has the facility, the body, the genes, or the God-given talent. People get jealous of that.

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

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can’t win, lose, win, lose.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

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.

No great thing is created suddenly.

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Genius, when young, is divine.

I’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.