Burned Quote by Itzhak Perlman

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

— Franz Liszt

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

— Itzhak Perlman

A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents.

— Anonymous

There are actually very few deeply 'gifted' kids with transcendent cognitive or artistic abilities.

— Alissa Quart

You launch these kids in to the limelight and they dont have the training for it. And I dont think theres any bigger curse…

— Kid Rock

“A child doesn't have to be a prodigy. The only thing that matters is that he should't become 'stuck' in childishness”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

It is my job to make sure that these kids who are talented get every chance they can and not to be passed over;…

— Paula Abdul

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

— Fran Lebowitz

I hate all children of precocious talent.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Even a lot of kids who are gifted can be kids who feel like wimps or nerds.

— Eric Wilson

Kids are overprogrammed these days.

— Ross W. Greene

Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.

— R. Buckminster Fuller