Franz Liszt Quotes

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.

Some people don't need to work hard because they are so talented.

Nobody told me I was a child prodigy.

To be called a genius at 17 or 18 years old can sometimes cause arrested development.

I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius.

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.

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

When did you ever hear of a child not in need? 'Oh that's enough jam tart for me, I'll just go now and clean the toilets.'

Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent.

It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.

When you're talented, you're talented.

I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.

I've been a golden boy for too long.

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

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

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

To my mind, talent doesn't really exist.

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.

Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.

I think it gets overused and tossed around in ways that aren't true. Every impressive achievement is not genius.

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

You need raw talent to be successful.

A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.