#prodigy

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

— Itzhak Perlman

#before #burned #child #child prodigy #even

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

#heard #how #i #illiterate #know

I tried painting for a short time and realized that I was not a child prodigy at painting. ↗

— Kim Weston

#child prodigy #i #i tried #painting #prodigy

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

— Desiderius Erasmus

#everybody #hates #head #old #prodigy

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 was never a prodigy. ↗

— Lindsay Davenport

#never #prodigy