Unusual Accomplishments Quotes

Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.

When it's all over I might be able to say I've had the strangest career in pro football history.

What you did, nobody wants to know about it, unless you did something exciting.

I'm not interested in superheroes. What about normal people doing extraordinary things?

Publishing at a young age is not really an indicator of talent.

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

I've always been interested in exploring the concept of child prodigies. When I was younger, I wrote a story about Mozart as a child, and I just always loved this idea of young people who are able to take control of their lives and bring a whole lot of change at such a young age.

The aspiring efforts of genius, or virtue, either in active or speculative life, are measured, not so much by their real elevation, as by the height to which they ascend above the level of their age and country; and the same stature, which in a people of giants would pass unnoticed, must appear conspicuous in a race of pygmies.