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

I never played with anything like toys.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

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

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’m not feeling very well – I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

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

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

I’ve never been able to witness the birth of an idea. It seems as if one second, there’s nothing particularly going on, and the next second, something is there. It’s coming up out of my unconscious, up from places that I don’t even know where they are.

Let the path be open to talent.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

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

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don’t know any better.

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.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination.

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you’re good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

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.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

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

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‘.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

Britney Spears was an incredible dancer. That kid was amazing.

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

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.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

I’ve always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it’s not imagination. It’s just a way of watching.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

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.

In case you’re wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no… people think so because I sound so good.

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.

When I was making ‚Star Wars,‘ I wasn’t restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, ‚I’m going to create a world that’s fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.‘

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

Some of the stuff I do on the court is what most people think they can do.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that’s not something I could do.

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

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.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

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

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.