He wasn't some child prodigy (he was 27 when he started painting), he learned his craft by hard work.
His name is Mark Zuckerberg he created Facebook he became a billionaire in his early 20s and he reminds me of the chess prodigy Bobby Fischer.
And repeat again. There appear to be no real shortcuts: even Mozart, who was a musical prodigy at age 4, took 13 more years before he began to produce world-class music.
As a child, Bobby Jones was a golf prodigy.
Psychologist Joanna Schaffhausen said, “Mozart was a child prodigy; Beethoven was not. The world still marvels at both of them.”
IN 1890 a 13-year-old Spanish musical prodigy, Pablo Casals, was rummaging through a second-hand sheet-music store in Barcelona.
During his progress from child prodigy to the self-styled “King of Pop” and, more recently, an eccentric semi-recluse, no part of Mr Jackson’s private life had given any other hint of normality.
In his drunken enthusiasm, Melchior conceived the idea of creating a musical prodigy.
Cowboy, soldier, hunter, naturalist, reformer, rancher, and a prolific author — it's probably more appropriate to refer to Teddy Roosevelt as "prodigy." Full stop.
A cello prodigy at the age of four, he entered the prestigious1 Juilliard School in 1962.
You cannot depict a saint-like Amadeus, the music prodigy, as all giggles and antics. It has to be a one-dimensional portrayal.
He had once been famous, a child prodigy, but now he was down and out.
He received a chess set for his 13th birthday, and he quickly discovered that he was something of a prodigy, a fact he decided to hide so he wouldn't get beaten up in the lunchroom.
Like a wrathful prodigy, Heather, beloved of someone, managed, in her great sadness-fuelled rage, to disassemble the chair while continuing to drive her head into the wall.
Of the prodigy of all wraths, said others.
The prodigy has already sold about 25 paintings, raising $40,000 and a new exhibition opens this week.
He began a relationship with one of his pupils, Charlotte Brent, a soprano and former child prodigy.
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