Pierre Bourdieu Quotes

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

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

... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.

There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children. So in that respect I could be called one, although I don't think I'll go off the rails.

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

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

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don't know that I've ever heard any geniuses.

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

Even primitive areas can produce a superstar.

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

Uzi is insanely good and super creative.

Sometimes, you have to sacrifice your talent to please the public.

Shogun is the most talented guy I've ever seen.

Isco is a genius. He is a natural and a huge talent.

Kylian is able to do extraordinary things. Look at his stats. He is efficient.

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 may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

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

Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack.

Neither can we admit that definition of genius that some would propose--"a power to accomplish all that we undertake;" for we might multiply examples to prove that this definition of genius contains more than the thing defined. Cicero failed in poetry, Pope in painting, Addison in oratory; yet it would be harsh to deny genius to these men.

In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism... such a talent was Janis Joplin.