Prodigies Quotes

50 Prodigies quotes by 47 unique authors

It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour. — Unknown Author
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
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him ! — Jonathan Swift
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
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
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are. — Luciano Pavarotti
For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them. — Itzhak Perlman
You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy. — Franz Liszt
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
If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God. — Gioachino Rossini
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
Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies. — Jamie Murphy
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
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
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
I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack. — Dhani Harrison
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
What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy — Blaise Pascal
Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities. — Itzhak Perlman
Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves with… — Joseph Addison
I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of… — Anthony Doerr
If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies. — H. L. Mencken
How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river… — Samuel Johnson
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… — Wendy Wasserstein

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