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

Authors on Prodigies Quotes: Itzhak Perlman Domenico Gnoli Larry Wilmore Michel Martin Chris Lowe John Baird Ethel Mumford Michel Ney Samuel Johnson Jonathan Swift David Foster Wallace Gioachino Rossini Luciano Pavarotti H. L. Mencken Joshua Waitzkin Desiderius Erasmus Franz Liszt Orson Welles John Green Dhani Harrison Fred Astaire Mara Wilson Lindsay Davenport Herbie Hancock
2.
For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.
Itzhak Perlman

3.
You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.
Franz Liszt

4.
It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour.
Michel Ney

5.
If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.
Gioachino Rossini

6.
Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.
Herbie Hancock

7.
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
Luciano Pavarotti

8.
Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.
Chris Lowe

9.
The prodigy who fades is an old story. But the prodigy who sets a high mark when young and then hits that mark, or exceeds it, over and over again, for a full lifespan, is truly remarkable, and worth celebrating.
John Baird

10.
I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.
Joshua Waitzkin

11.
Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.
Itzhak Perlman

12.
Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.
Domenico Gnoli

13.
I don't remember anybody ever pointing me out as a dancing prodigy, but I played a not bad second base.
Fred Astaire

14.
If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.
H. L. Mencken

15.
And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.
John Green

16.
Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.
Samuel Johnson

17.
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.
Domenico Gnoli

18.
I think it's fair to say that Nina Simone was a prodigy.
Michel Martin

19.
I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.
Dhani Harrison

20.
Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.
Orson Welles

21.
Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
Jonathan Swift

22.
I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius.
Mara Wilson

23.
Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.
Ethel Mumford

24.
I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about.
Larry Wilmore

25.
Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy.
David Foster Wallace

26.
You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.
Larry Wilmore

27.
I was never a prodigy.
Lindsay Davenport