Top 100 Quotes About Prodigy
#2. TWELVE-YEAR-OLD TRIAL PRODIGY JUNE IPARIS BECOMES YOUNGEST STUDENT EVER ADMITTED TO DRAKE UNIVERSITY, TO BE OFFICIALLY INDUCTED NEXT WEEK.
Marie Lu
#3. I don't consider myself a particularly young chess player. I have been playing in the best tournaments in the world since I was 16 years old. In other sports, if you have been playing for seven years, you are not a young prodigy any more. You're one of the pros.
Magnus Carlsen
#4. No papers, no money; no family, no friends, no sense of who you are. The obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy.
J.M. Coetzee
#5. Oh, whatever would I do without my child-progeny sister to tell me what to do."
"Prodigy," I corrected.
Barbara Kingsolver
#6. Many people used to call me a child prodigy, but I never thought that. I knew that I had learned everything, that I had very good circumstances.
Michala Petri
#7. I was never pegged to be the next great American tennis player by any means. I wasn't a prodigy. I'm a late bloomer. Whatever happens, I'm proud of what I've done.
John Isner
#8. We hear about Tiger Woods as a prodigy at three years old. For every Tiger Woods, there are thousands of kids who never want to touch a golf club again.
Michael Sokolove
#9. Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.
Harold Bloom
#10. If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.
Eoin Colfer
#11. There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.
Samuel Johnson
#12. In the mirror, I look the same. But I am a different person inside.I am a prodigy who knows the truth. I know exactly what I'm going to do.
Marie Lu
#13. If I was a musician it would probably be something between Marilyn Manson and The Prodigy.
Daniel Marques
#14. If now a friend denies not what was given him in trust,
If he restores an ancient purse with all its coins and rust,
This prodigy of honesty deserves to be enrolled
In Tuscan books, and with a sacrificial lamb extolled.
Juvenal
#15. Androma was good at what she did. But so was Dex.
Besides, a prodigy could only outrun her master for so long.
Sasha Alsberg
#16. 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 parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.
Frank Black
#17. If you like being battered, the work of Savion Glover - one-time child prodigy - should be up your alley. I don't, and it isn't up mine.
Robert Gottlieb
#18. Paul had always wanted to be a prodigy. But what no one ever told him was that prodigies don't feel like prodigies; they feel old. They feel like has-beens just at the moment that they're said to be blossoming.
Graham Moore
#19. If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose then I'm mad. That's the way history is written
Eoin Colfer
#20. For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.
Itzhak Perlman
#21. I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.
Joshua Waitzkin
#22. And stature commanding and exact - in intellect richly endowed - in natural eloquence a prodigy - in soul manifestly "created but a little lower than the angels" - yet a slave, ay, a fugitive slave, - trembling for his safety, hardly daring to believe
Frederick Douglass
#23. 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 some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.
Josh Gad
#24. Writing for me is the hardest thing in the world, but also a thing which, once completed, is the most satisfying ... I am no prodigy but, Fate willing, I think I can produce art.
William Styron
#25. 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 benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed.
John Sununu
#26. All Prodigy music is raw, and that will never change, the production is raw, the sounds are dirty, you can't get away from that. Take it or leave it.
Liam Howlett
#27. I wrote half the record in 2002, which basically concluded with us releasing "Baby's Got A Temper," the last single. I think after the disappointment of that record for myself with the lack of energy and the way the record came out, I would say that was probably the low point of The Prodigy.
Liam Howlett
#28. I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter.
Bobby Sherman
#29. He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.
Nick Hornby
#30. And here it is that I miss my Watson. By cunning questions and ejaculations of wonder he could elevate my simple art, which is but systematized common sense, into a prodigy. When I tell my own story I have no such aid.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#31. I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.
David Quammen
#32. A child doesn't have to be a prodigy. He has to be a child. The only thing that matters is that he shouldn't become 'stuck' in childishness.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#33. What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile worm; depository of truth, and sewer of error and doubt; the glory and refuse of the universe.
Blaise Pascal
#34. Whether you're a programming prodigy or the office manager holding it all together, technology empowers small groups of passionate people with an astonishing degree of leverage to make the world a better place.
Justin Rosenstein
#35. Oddly enough, my partner went on Prodigy when it first came out, and I ended up playing with some of that stuff!.
Bobby Sherman
#36. I don't remember anybody ever pointing me out as a dancing prodigy, but I played a not bad second base.
Fred Astaire
#37. Ms Rainn, you might say, is a writing prodigy and I'm her mentor.
S.A. Tawks
#38. A young man who plays his part in society by looking on in green spectacles, and listening with a sickly smile, may be a prodigy of intellect and a mine of virtue, but he is hardly, perhaps, the right sort of man to have at a picnic.
Wilkie Collins
#39. The problem exactly is that she dumped me. That I'm alone. Oh my God, I'm alone again. And not only that, but I'm a total failure in case you haven't noticed. I'm washed up. I'm former. Formerly the boyfriend of Katherine XIX. Formerly a prodigy. Formerly full of potential. Currently full of shit.
John Green
#40. Trumbo was that, certainly: a prodigy of the will. He hung in there - survived, prevailed, even triumphed on a couple of occasions. Ultimately, that is why he is worth our attention.
Bruce Cook
#41. Am I a prodigy?" I ask.
Miss Person snorts. She pushed the cap back on her purple pen. 'You have some talent and you work hard. I'll take that over prodigy any day.
Linda Urban
#42. Be a combination of a dove and the serpent; not a monster, but a prodigy.
Baltasar Gracian
#43. What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster ... what a contradiction, what a prodigy
Blaise Pascal
#44. Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.
Itzhak Perlman
#46. 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
#47. Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.
Chris Lowe
#48. I don't know if you know this - I don't drive a stick. I mean, I barely drive my automatic. I get to work and everything, but I'm not any kind of driving prodigy.
Jessica Pare
#49. I think it's fair to say that Nina Simone was a prodigy.
Michel Martin
#50. even Mozart, who was a musical prodigy at age four, took 13 more years before he began to produce world-class music. The
Jeff Atwood
#51. 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 what I do a little bit better than others, and that happens to be dancing.
Min
#53. 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 rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.
Anthony Doerr
#54. Nicky, the van's on fire!'
'Fuck the van, Willy! We got ourselves a prodigy child!
Jonathan Dunne
#55. I can remember wondering as a child if I were a young Macaulay or Ruskin and secretly deciding that I was. My infant mind even was bitter with those who insisted on regarding me as a normal child and not as a prodigy.
W.N.P. Barbellion
#57. The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.
Nick Flynn
#58. Years ago at music camp Harry once said to me, "He's not just a musical prodigy, you know. He's a musical genius." It comes back to me now. And I laugh when I kiss my 'musical genius' because really he's just Flynn.
Tabitha Suzuma
#59. I never thought of myself as special or particularly good at anything. But once I started ballet, suddenly I had a new identity: prodigy.
Misty Copeland
#60. I have never been a child prodigy. When I think back to my childhood, I can not discern any sign of future success. My only real talent couldn't be found in any curriculum: whistling.
Bobbejaan Schoepen
#61. I listen to a variety of stuff on my iPod: Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Public Enemy, Foo Fighters, anything that gets my adrenalin flowing.
Chris Hoy
#62. There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children. So in that respect I could be called one, although I don't think I'll go off the rails.
Adora Svitak
#63. I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.
Dhani Harrison
#64. 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 Child Prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Will Rogers
#65. You groped my bum!"
"It was an accident."
"It was not. You haven't done anything accidental with that hand since you were twelve."
"Fifteen, Mabes. You make me sound like some kind of infant sex prodigy.
Lily Morton
#66. When you're ten, they call you a prodigy. When you're fifteen, they call you a genius. But once you hit twenty, you're just a normal person.
Masahiro Yokotani
#67. Day didn't fail his Trial. Not even close. In fact, he got the same score I did: 1500 / 1500. I am no longer the Republic's only prodigy with a perfect score.
Marie Lu
#68. There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
Luciano Pavarotti
#69. 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 to me, until I was older and could look back on it.
Misty Copeland
#70. Throughout my years in From First to Last, I was always dabbling and making electronic music on my own time. The first records I ever owned were crossover electronic rock, like Prodigy, Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails.
Skrillex
#71. I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting.
Kim Weston
#72. She was a true Tanosenk ... a prodigy ... a true unicorn ... and a true warrior. She faced an unfair death. As a tribute to her, this star was named after her.
Deepika Kumaaraguru
#73. There Kelvin proved himself such a prodigy that he was admitted to Glasgow University at the exceedingly tender age of ten.
Bill Bryson
#74. You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.
Franz Liszt
#75. 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 which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.
John Green
#76. The prodigy who fades is an old story. But the prodigy who sets a high mark when young and then hits that mark, or exceeds it, over and over again, for a full lifespan, is truly remarkable, and worth celebrating.
John Baird
#77. Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
Desiderius Erasmus
#78. But sometimes the prodigy in me became impatient. "If you don't hurry up and get me out of here, I'm disappearing for good," it warned. "And they you'll always be nothing.
Amy Tan
#80. 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 seen before, he calls it a prodigy.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#81. He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.
Robert Moses
#82. 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 things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?
Blaise Pascal
#83. And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.
John Green
#84. He was continually surprised at the speed and accuracy of her creepiness. She was like some creepiness child prodigy
Christopher Moore
#85. I got lots of love for my crew, that is;
No love for them other crews and rival kids.
All them out-of-town niggas know what time it is,
And if they don't? They need to buy a watch, word up.
Prodigy
#86. Take these words home and think it through;
Or the next rhyme I write might be about you.
Prodigy
#87. Even in the dark, I see hints of a smile creep onto her face.
"Yeah. You are a smooth talker."
I give her a wounded frown."Sweetheart, would I ever lie to you?"
"Don't try. I'd see right through it." I give her a low laugh. "Fair enough.
Marie Lu
#88. All they're going to see is a wealthy man who has no idea how to heal their suffering.
Marie Lu
#89. I'm only 19 but my mind is older ...
When things get for real, my warm heart turns cold.
Prodigy
#90. Life is a gamble, we scramble for money,
I might crack a smile, but ain't a damn thing funny.
Prodigy
#91. There really is no sense in pretending to be normal. Just be you because the moment you do, weirder things happen. Crazy comes back into fashion and every woman has to go out and find her some.
Shannon L. Alder
#92. When you think yourself as nothing,
Then something important will begin
Rajesh Nanoo
#93. A person who's going to be famous usually drops a few clues by the time they're twenty-one.
Frank D. Gilroy
#94. Your strengths might make you hard to approach, and might make your words sound uglier than what you actually mean, but they also make people look up to you.
Marie Lu
#95. Havin' cash is highly addictive, especially when you're used to havin' money to live with.
Prodigy
#96. When the slugs penetrate, you feel a burning sensation,
Gettin closer to God in a tight situation.
Prodigy
#97. The sunset looks beautiful over the projects ...
What a shame, it ain't the same where we stand at.
If you look close, you can see the bricks chipped off.
Sometimes niggas miss when they lick off.
Prodigy
#98. For all of those who wanna profile and pose
Rock you in your face, stab your brain with your nose bone.
Prodigy
#99. These ante meridiem cats, insomniacs ...
Four in the mornin' we throwin back some Cognac juice.
Prodigy
#100. I want to fall into the purity that is Day, soaking in his simple honesty, his heart that sits open and beating on his sleeve.
Marie Lu
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