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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I've been around so long that I might be in record books for being the longest, weirdest, most pathetic great player ever. Look t how precocious I am at 33.

  Vince Spadea

  Book, Player, Long

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• Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Wise, Teenage, Men

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• Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her-of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally appreciated-he had the sense, between himself and her, of a kind of free-masonry of precocious tolerance and irony. They had both, in early youth, taken the measure of the world they happened to live in: they knew just what it was worth to them and for what reasons, and the community of these reasons lent to their intimacy its last exquisite touch.

  Edith Wharton

  Taken, Community, Tolerance

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2130, Delphi Classics

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• In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.

  Ian Anderson

  Children, Writing, School

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• Apart from anything else, I got to work with Jennifer Lawrence. She’s a lovely girl. I know people often say things like that in interviews, but she really is. While she may be young, she doesn’t feel at all precocious. Instead, she’s smart and funny and terrific at connecting with people. She just blew me away.

  Julianne Moore

  Girl, Smart, People

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• I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.

  Rene Cassin

  Century, Capacity, Involvement

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• The American civil space program is growing to maturity. It has passed through the joys and crises of precocious childhood and now is being called upon to do grown-up things, like earn a living and establish permanent roots in space.

  John Noble Wilford

  Maturity, Roots, Space

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• I'd rather be referred to as a precocious young Quebec talent, than not be referred to at all.

  Xavier Dolan

  Talent, Quebec, Young

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• School success is not predicted by a child's fund of facts or a precocious ability to read as much as by emotional and social measures; being self-assured and interested: knowing what kind of behavior is expected and how to rein in the impulse to misbehave; being able to wait, to follow directions, and to turn to teachers for help; and expressing needs while getting along with other children.

  Daniel Goleman

  Teacher, Children, School

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• I just feel "One More Try" is better lyrically. "Careless Whisper" was written when I was 17 years old, and I had not really experienced anything that strong in my life, so it was a bit precocious.

  George Michael

  Strong, Years, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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