Ordinary Quotes - Page 16

We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren't too screwed up.

I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them.

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.

All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.

When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.

The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that time and place, so that life around him presses in on all the senses and small details grow in significance. He begins the scanning search for which cognition was engineered. His mind becomes unfocused, it focuses on everything, no longer directed toward any ordinary task or social pleasantry.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace

Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.

We chose whether to be warriors or to be ordinary.

I have not led an ordinary life, nor a life that would suit everyone. I took great risks, but because I did, I also earned great reward. I found the way to show my true face freely, without fear. Because of this, I found true love.

The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.

Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton.

I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.

Only an extraordinary person can turn opportunity into reality.

We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

We know, from ordinary life, that we are not able to direct our attention perfectly steadily and uniformly to one and the same object... At times the attention turns towards the object most intensely, and at times the energy flags.

It is only when we decide that 'ordinary' is an insult, that we become the exquisite miracles we were born to be.

No one is ever ordinary.

The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry.

I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous.

Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.

Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.

Fine wine leaves you with something pleasant. The ordinary wine just leaves.

Any deviation from the ordinary course of life in this quiet town was enough to stop all progress in it.