Ordinary Quotes - Page 11

The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.

Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing.

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life. .

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which are genuinely of minor interest. Thus it is possible to imagine a depressed lover, while the idea of a depressed patriot seems frankly inconceivable.

I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.

I know it's not ordinary. But who ever loved ordinary?

It all comes down to what you truly love doing, and what I love doing is overdubbing and making new sounds out of things that are sometimes quite ordinary on their own, but when you put them together, they make something new--or something that sounds new. Just discovering things like that musically is a pleasure.

Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental right there. You have past and future colliding in the present, your own personal Big Bang, and nothing will ever be the same.

I have no time for things that have no soul.

You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose.

The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.

To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex for recreation.

I've been and am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen and I'm quite ordinary, and will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

Ordinary people can spread good and bad information about brands faster than marketers.

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

Mentorship is the key to extraordinary success.

Reality is always extraordinary.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.