{"quotes":[{"text":"When you think yourself as nothing,Then something important will begin.","author":"Rajesh Nanoo","tags":["prodigy","self-awareness","self-esteem","self-worth","selfish-love","selfishness"],"id":29230,"author_id":"Rajesh+Nanoo"},{"text":"Androma was good at what she did. But so was Dex.Besides, a prodigy could only outrun her master for so long.","author":"Sasha Alsberg","tags":["androma","dex","lovers","master","prodigy"],"id":29577,"author_id":"Sasha+Alsberg"},{"text":"He was a young man of savage \u0026 unexpected originality, a diseased genius \u0026 quite frankly, a mad genius. Imbeciles grow insane \u0026 in their insanity the imbecility remains stagnant or agitated; in the madness of a man of genius some genius often remains: the form \u0026 not the quality of intelligence has been affected; the fruit has been bruised in the fall, but has preserved all its perfume \u0026 all the savor of its pulp, hardly too ripe.","author":"Rémy de Gourmont","tags":["critique","genius","lautreamont","maldoror","prodigy"],"id":58238,"author_id":"R%C3%A9my+de+Gourmont"},{"text":"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.","author":"Michael Sokolove","tags":["golf","prodigy","sports"],"id":79374,"author_id":"Michael+Sokolove"},{"text":"What was it - this implacable remoteness, this inability to surrender herself to the warmth and comradely feelings of others? Could being an academic star, being applauded over and over again as a prodigy, take the place of all that? She shuddered with a feeling she couldn't have put a name to. It was the congenital human fear of isolation.","author":"Tom Wolfe","tags":["fears","isolation","loneliness","prodigy"],"id":137742,"author_id":"Tom+Wolfe"},{"text":"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.","author":"Marie Lu","tags":["champion","legend","life-before-legend","marie-lu","prodigy","strength"],"id":160855,"author_id":"Marie+Lu"},{"text":"I'd hoped for someone who was remarkably intelligent, but disadvantaged by home circumstance, someone who only needed an hour's extra tuition a week to become some kind of working-class prodigy. I wanted my hour a week to make the difference between a future addicted to heroin and a future studying English at Oxford. That was the sort of kid I wanted, and instead they'd given me someone whose chief interest was in eating fruit. I mean, what did he need to read for? There's an international symbol for the gents' toilets, and he could always get his mother to tell him what was on television.","author":"Nick Hornby","tags":["children","disadvantaged","english","fruit","gents-toilets","heroin","intelligent","learning-to-read","martin-sharpe","oxford","pacino","prodigy","reading","symbol","telly","tutoring"],"id":173512,"author_id":"Nick+Hornby"},{"text":"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.","author":"Victor Hugo","tags":["hatred","prodigy"],"id":214410,"author_id":"Victor+Hugo"},{"text":"An art prodigy of the 21st century has yet to be crowned. Or have they?","author":"Luhraw","tags":["abstract","art","artists","celebrities","drawing","luhraw","painting","photography","prodigy","sketching","visual-art"],"id":269997,"author_id":"Luhraw"},{"text":"All they're going to see is a wealthy man who has no idea how to heal their suffering.","author":"Marie Lu","tags":["marie-lu","prodigy","suffering","wealthy"],"id":363698,"author_id":"Marie+Lu"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}