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
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
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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.
I don't remember anybody ever pointing me out as a dancing prodigy, but I played a not bad second base.
Fred Astaire
14.
And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.
John Green
16.
If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.
H. L. Mencken
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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 was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius.
Mara Wilson
19.
Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.
Ethel Mumford
20.
I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about.
Larry Wilmore
22.
You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.
Larry Wilmore
24.
I think it's fair to say that Nina Simone was a prodigy.
Michel Martin
25.
I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.
Dhani Harrison
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Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.
Orson Welles