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

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today’s military rejects include tomorrow’s hard-core unemployed.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

I can dance to just about anything.

I never played with anything like toys.

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

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

Don Quixote’s misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

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.

Everything I’ve been thinking, every vision, even down to every shot I throw, it just ends up here in reality. Whether it was in a fight and how to react or whether it was in a stadium with screaming fans or whether I was in a fancy car or the best clothes ever, I always put myself somewhere.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

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

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.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.

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

If I had any talent that God could give me, I would be a great diva.

The quote-unquote ‚description‘ of a leading man was once your tall, handsome man with the build of whatever, almost a trophy to some degree. I think now it’s about making a leading man what you want a leading man to be. In this day, you can’t deny talent. You look at Jonah Hill, you look at Zach Galifianakis, you look at myself.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

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

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

I didn’t think it was special to be able to sing.

From the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.

You know, I’m just 6’9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.“

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

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

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.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

Genius, when young, is divine.

When you’re around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don’t have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

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

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

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

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

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Cause I’m a musician, I’m not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

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.

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.

A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn’t. Like East African free jazz, which as far as I know does not exist.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

I’ve been in the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus since I was 8.

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.

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, ‚Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.‘ You have no idea of the competition.

I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4.

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

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

Teaching’s hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.