#prodigy

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

#because #been #beyond #command #defined

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#everybody #hates #head #old #prodigy

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

#because #benefited #cannibal #changed #competitors

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. Every summit seems an exaggeration. Climbing wearies. The steepnesses take away one's breath; we slip on the slopes, we are hurt by the sharp points which are its beauty; the foaming torrents betray the precipices, clouds hide the mountain tops; mounting is full of terror, as well as a fall. Hence, there is more dismay than admiration. People have a strange feeling of aversion to anything grand. They see abysses, they do not see sublimity; they see the monster, they do not see the prodigy. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#prodigy #beauty

Prodigy" Huge, megalithic corporation seeks a talented, ambitious prodigy to join our exciting dynamic Prodigy Division for summer job. Requirements include at least fourteen years' experience as a certified child prodigy ability to anagram adeptly (and alliterate agilely), fluency in eleven languages. Job duties include reading, remembering encyclopedias, novels, and poetry; and memorizing the first ninety-nine digits of pi.33 ↗

— John Green

#experience

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

#feel #getting #gone #got #happened

I was never a prodigy. ↗

— Lindsay Davenport

#never #prodigy

Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#call #generally #i #i love #know

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are. ↗

— Luciano Pavarotti

#none #our #past #prodigy #profession

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