Precocious Quotes

• I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Children, Echoes, Parent

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• What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

  Pablo Picasso

  Time, Zero, Children

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.

  Gore Vidal

  Talent, Mature, Ifs

  Gore Vidal (1982). “The second American revolution and other essays (1976-1982)”, Random House Inc

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• Wines are like people. Some are perfect but boring, some are precocious but fail to live up to their promise, and some may be flawed, but the way they may develop is endlessly fascinating.

  Michael Broadbent

  Wine, People, Perfect

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• The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Peace, Clever, War

  Speech, Toronto, Canada, 14 Mar. 1955

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• I basically was a precocious little kid.

  Michael Ironside

  Kids, Littles, Little Kid

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• One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

  W. H. Auden

  Character, Thinking, Personality

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• Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

  Albert Einstein

  Happiness, Ambition, Pigs

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• When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Futility Of Life, Young

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• When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Thinking, Covered Up

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• It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few.

  Sam Savage

  Character, Names, Giving

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• They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens. The remarkably adult yet innocent expression of their open and serene eyes is very memorable. All intelligence seems reflected in them. They suggest not merely the purity of infancy, but a wisdom clarified by experience. Such an eye was not born when the bird was, but is coeval with the sky it reflects. The woods do not yield another such a gem.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Memorable, Sky

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.147, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Jen came first, and then they wanted to cast somebody that would... Kevin liked the idea of having a kind of The Ghost of That Character kind of haunt the movie in a way throughout, by having Raquel look so much like her. And also, it was sort of serendipity. I mean, she was also the best actress. I mean, as you can see Raquel has a pretty appealing, engaging kind of precocious, sparkly quality that's... it was just luck really that she happened to the film.

  Ben Affleck

  Character, Mean, Ideas

  "Talking with the guy who gets Jersey Girl". Interview with Steve Head, ca.ign.com. March 24, 2004.

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• I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.

  Rachel Kushner

  College, Young, Wanted

  "Rachel Kushner: 'I know what it feels like to crash a motorcycle at 140mph'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2013.

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• Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
  Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious!
  If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious.
  Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

  Julie Andrews

  Sound, Enough, Loud

  Song: Super-Cali-Fragil-Istic-Expi-Ali-Docious

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• An extraordinarily precocious mind, a political free thinker, who towered above his political contemporaries in Germany.

  Franz Mehring

  Political, Mind, Germany

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• I come from a family of all women and one boy, my brother. We're all women and we're all precocious and opinionated and like to have fun and we always had friends in the house and we were always, like, half-naked.

  Jemima Kirke

  Brother, Fun, Boys

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.

  Ari Graynor

  Children, Growing Up, Fall

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings. We do not wish to see children precocious, making great strides in their early years like sprouts, producing a soft and perishable timber, but better if they expand slowly at first, as if contending with difficulties, and so are solidified and perfected. Such trees continue to expand with nearly equal rapidity to extreme old age.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.439, Yale University Press

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• We are a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk.We are the original displaced personalities, concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children.

  Herman J. Mankiewicz

  Children, Emotional, Personality

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• Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Technology, Phones, Voice

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• I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didnt dissuade me.

  Carmen Ejogo

  Mother, Kids, Personality

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• Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions.

  Alice Munro

  Children, Awkward, Only Child

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• Brian Laws has lifted his team out of precocious waters

  Alvin Martin

  Team, Law, Water

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• I was a precocious reader.

  Norman Spinrad

  Reader

  Author Q&A, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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