There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out, geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn, geniuses do.

~ John Green

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The music world is where child prodigies go to die.

~ Haruki Murakami

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Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses because of their education.

~ James Morcan

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