A Quote by Nick Hornby

He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.

Nick Hornby

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Nick Hornby
English - Writer
Born: April 17, 1957

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

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

[Donald] Trump's behavior during the presidential campaign was often erratic, seemingly based on discernable personality traits, including narcissism, arrogance, impulsiveness, and a lack of predictability.

David Krieger

A prodigy to me is someone that is enormously gifted at a young age - to the point that people can't deny it. I think when you are a young kid and you are a prodigy, other parents, when their child is on your team, they aren't even mad that their kid isn't getting the shine because that other kid is special.

Jamal Crawford

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

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

Larry Wilmore

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

Herbie Hancock

You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.

Franz Liszt

I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.

Pardis Sabeti

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

Itzhak Perlman

I was a child prodigy who had a freak voice of something like four octaves.

Julie Andrews

Some people seem to have extreme natural wiring - a talent that seems to come out of nowhere. Like a music savant or prodigy. The uplifting news, though, is that many talented people don't have such natural wiring - but they forge a talent through thousands of hours of what's known as deliberate practice or deliberate performance.

Kevin Maney

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

I was a gnomish prodigy - half-human, half-goblin, man-child, child-man.

Mickey Rooney

Unfortunately when you are a child prodigy there's very few that have made the transition into manhood. That's why I thank God for a full beard.

Omarion

Talent isn't really enough to make it in any world. If you're trying to be a superstar, or at the highest rate of fame, you have to have personality too. You have to be a well-rounded person. It takes way more than talent nowadays.

D-Pryde

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