Prodigies Quotes

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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.

Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies.

You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.

A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.

If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.

It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour.

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

I believe that every man has in his soul a passion for treasure-hunting, which will often drive a coward into prodigies of valour.

Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.

I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.

Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.

I don't remember anybody ever pointing me out as a dancing prodigy, but I played a not bad second base.

Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.

If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.

Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.

I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever.

Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.

And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.

I'm perpetually curious as to what happened to all those supposed prodigies who were singled out while I and my coterie of far more interesting malcontents passed on.

I call prodigy all that is invented, all that begins to exist from the second it is conceived, it is the process not the results, the principle and not the fruits.

Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion.

Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses because of their education.

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about.

I was never a prodigy.

Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !

I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius.

I think it's fair to say that Nina Simone was a prodigy.

Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.

Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.

An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies.

In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show.

I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.

Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy.

Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies!

The music world is where child prodigies go to die.