Prodigies Quote by Lindsay Davenport Download Open image “I was never a prodigy.” — Lindsay Davenport ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Prodigies
I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it. — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
I never felt like a prodigy. For one thing, the root of the word is rather monstrous, literally. I never really felt like a… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
Many people used to call me a child prodigy, but I never thought that. I knew that I had learned everything, that I had… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
To be honest, I don't really consider myself a prodigy. Learning the piano, I have encountered some difficulties. There are many challenges in playing… — George Li Copy Share Image
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… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children.… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
I was called a dance prodigy since I was young. A prodigy is like a genius. But I'm not a genius. It's just that… — Min Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing. — Lindsay Davenport Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to go through divorce, especially when there's young children involved. — Lindsay Davenport Copy Share Image
We get criticized for showing no personality, and then we get penalized when we do. — Lindsay Davenport Copy Share Image
I donate lots to charity. I don't necessarily tell everybody the number or what I do. — Lindsay Davenport Copy Share Image
I never had tons of friends on tour. I was quiet and went about my business. — Lindsay Davenport Copy Share Image
I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're… — Lindsay Davenport Copy Share Image
I could never have gotten back into my career without the undying support of my husband, who works full time at a stressful job!… — Lindsay Davenport Copy Share Image
You always see people coming back to the sport, and I've always thought, 'Gosh, when you're done playing, wouldn't you just want to stay… — Lindsay Davenport Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. Mozart was hardly some naive prodigy who sat down at the keyboard and, with God whispering in… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The philosopher, who with calm suspicion examines the dreams and omens, the miracles and prodigies, of profane or even of ecclesiastical history, will probably… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius. — John Green Copy Share Image
Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
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… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When I was four, I think I just wanted to make noise. When I was about 10 years old I was given five CDs… — Eliot Paulina Sumner Copy Share Image
As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is atrocious, we know. But precisely because I expect little of the human condition, man's periods of felicity, his partial progress, his efforts… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
