Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

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

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

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

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

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

It’s not about charisma and personality, it’s about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

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

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

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

I dwell in possibility.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

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

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

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

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it’s there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

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

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

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

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

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

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

I like not fair terms and a villain’s mind.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

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.

Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

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.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

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

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

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.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.