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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 which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.

    John Green (2006). “An Abundance of Katherines”, Dutton Childrens Books
  • 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 and I've grown frustrated at times... But because I like to play the piano, I never thought of giving up. I was always able to overcome difficulties in pianistic techniques. Yes, there might be some 'traffic lights', but they all turned 'green'.

    Giving Up   Light   Play  
    Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 26, 2012.
  • Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.

    Real   Looks   Prodigies  
  • 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 prodigies of conversion and marvelous holiness if they had not changed the flames of human passion into volcanoes of immense love of God.

  • 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.

  • You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

    Writing   Age   Prodigies  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.

    Used   Prodigies   Term  
  • 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 ears, let music flow from his fingertips. It's a nice image for selling tickets to movies, but whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss.

    Nice   Kissing   Destiny  
  • I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

  • 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.

  • A savant, by definition, is somebody who has a disability and, along with that disability, has some remarkable ability. Prodigies and geniuses have the remarkable abilities that the savant shows, but they do not have a disability. So, by definition, a savant includes someone with a disability, and a prodigy or genius are people who have these remarkable skills but they do not have a disability.

    Skills   People   Genius  
    "Conversations on Creativity with Darold Treffert, Part I: De". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, www.psychologytoday.com. April 11, 2011.
  • 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.

    Reality   Voice   Parent  
    "Black Francis can't tell Rock Chickens from EGGS" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. July 30, 2009.
  • I've always been interested in exploring the concept of child prodigies. When I was younger, I wrote a story about Mozart as a child and I just always loved this idea of young people who are able to take control of their lives and bring a whole lot of change at such a young age.

    Children   Ideas   People  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !

    Jonathan Swift (1998). “The Sayings of Jonathan Swift”, p.44, Gerald Duckworth & Co
  • 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.

  • 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 but in a storm, or take a journey into the country without more adventures than befel the knights-errant of ancient times in pathless forests or enchanted castles! How many must he know, to whom portents and prodigies are of daily occurrence; and for whom nature is hourly working wonders invisible to every other eye, only to supply them with subjects of conversation?

    Country   Adventure   Eye  
    Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.23
  • An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies.

    Source: observer.com
  • I confess that Magic teacheth many superfluous things, and curious prodigies for ostentation; leave them as empty things, yet be not ignorant of their causes. But those things which are for the profit of men -- for the turning away of evil events, for the destroying of sorceries, for the curing of diseases, for the exterminating of phantasms, for the preserving of life, honor, or fortune -- may be done without offense to God or injury to religion, because they are, as profitable, so necessary.

    Men   Evil   Ignorant  
  • For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.

  • Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy.

  • But how shall we excuse the supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their senses? During the age of Christ, of his apostles, and their first disciples, the doctrine which they preached was confirmed by innumerable prodigies. The lame walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, daemons were expelled, and the laws of Nature were frequently suspended for the benefit of the church.

    Hands   Law   Omnipotence  
    Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.84
  • 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.

  • Nothing is so convenient as a decisive argument ... which must at least silence the most arrogant bigotry and superstition, and free us from their impertinent solicitations. I flatter myself, that I have discovered an argument ... which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures. For so long, I presume, will the accounts of miracles and prodigies be found in all history, sacred and profane.

    Wise   Long   Silence  
    David Hume, Eric Steinberg (1992). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature”, p.73, Hackett Publishing
  • In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show.

    Life   Wise   Eye  
    Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Poems of Dr. Samuel Johnson. To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author”, p.39
  • 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.

  • Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.

    Wise   Brave   Prodigies  
    'The Vanity of Human Wishes' (1749) l. 315
  • Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.

    Prodigies   Born   Infant  
  • 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.

    Children   People   Used  
  • I listen to a variety of stuff on my iPod: Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Public Enemy, Foo Fighters, anything that gets my adrenalin flowing.

    Brother   Ipods   Enemy  
    Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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