Prodigies Quotes
50 Prodigies quotes by 47 unique authors
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I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.
— Joshua Waitzkin
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I was never a prodigy.
— Lindsay Davenport
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I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent…
— Josh Gad
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Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.
— Herbie Hancock
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I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my…
— Black Francis
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The word "prodigy" was thrown around a lot, but I didn't understand what that meant, or the weight of it. It didn't really mean anything…
— Misty Copeland
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A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Oddly enough, my partner went on Prodigy when it first came out, and I ended up playing with some of that stuff!.
— Bobby Sherman
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I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know anything else ... I was not a Child Prodigy, because a…
— Will Rogers
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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.
— Robert Moses
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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once…
— John Sununu
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Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.
— Orson Welles
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If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.
— Eoin Colfer
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He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.
— Nick Hornby
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Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy.
— David Foster Wallace
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Sometimes, the Angel [of Music] leans over the cradle... and that is how there are little prodigies who play the fiddle at six better than…
— Gaston Leroux
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Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.
— Harold Bloom
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Mia and I had been together for more than two years, and yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind…
— Gayle Forman
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There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that…
— John Green
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And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.
— John Green
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What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all…
— Blaise Pascal
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Ronan merely invested a look with as much contempt as he could muster. A lady reached over the top of Noah to pat Matthew's head…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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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.
— David Hume
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An infant prodigy of nine is shoved upon the stage in white. She starts off in a dismal whine about a dark and stormy night,…
— Noel Coward
Who Wrote These Prodigies Quotes
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