Prodigies Quotes
50 quotes by 47 authors
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It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour.
— Michel Ney
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When I noticed how my own children were effortlessly able to use all this sophisticated technology, at first I thought, 'My children are prodigies!' But…
— Don Tapscott
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A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
— Jonathan Swift
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Did a Magdalene, a Paul, a Constantine, an Augustine become mountains of ice after their conversion? Quite the contrary. We should never have had these…
— Frances Xavier Cabrini
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Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem…
— Brad Paisley
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There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
— Luciano Pavarotti
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For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.
— Itzhak Perlman
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You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.
— Franz Liszt
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Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. Mozart was hardly some naive prodigy who sat down at the keyboard and, with God whispering in his…
— Twyla Tharp
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If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.
— Gioachino Rossini
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SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies.
— Jamie Murphy
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As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up at…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help) that I should…
— Osamu Dazai
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In the current era, more than prodigies in mathematics, science, athletics, or art, I believe we need prodigies of good character and integrity. People who…
— Ilchi Lee
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I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.
— Dhani Harrison
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He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising maths problems and…
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy
— Blaise Pascal
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Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.
— Itzhak Perlman
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