Lindsay Davenport Quotes

I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

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

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

The name 'Wiz' comes from me being the youngest dude in my age group of people that I hung out with. I was pretty good at anything I tried to do, so they would call me a young wiz.

I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

I'm a bordering genius.

Uzi is insanely good and super creative.

I'm not a prodigy - or a 'wonderboy,' as some have put it.

I am on an elite level of talent.

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.

My brother is a genius. When we went to Italy, he was on the local television channel as a prodigy, who could solve very sophisticated mathematical equations. He was only seven or eight years old but he could solve mathematical problems for fourteen year olds.

You have to have some form of talent. Getting to a skill-set when you can do something is achievable. Getting to a skill-set when you can do it an elite level is a different thing.

Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

I'm definitely more talented than most of the guys I know.

Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.

The thing that most people call 'genius' I do not believe in.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.

You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius.

Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.