Ordinary Quotes - Page 21

The hours that ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage.

Each individual is unique in ordinary life. The uniqueness becomes even more sharp and clear, crystal clear, when the person becomes enlightened - because only then his pure genius, his pure individuality, uncontaminated, unpolluted, is revealed.

Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.

The unconscious in us warns us that in art we have to followoneparticular path. And if wefollow it, it isnotthe sign of anunconscious act.On the contrary, it showsthat there is in our ordinary consciousness a greater awareness of our unconsciousness.

The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.

Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.

See beauty in those unexpected places. (she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.) See the opportunity in what looks like inconvenience. (she steered clear of the traffic jam and went to the bakery she's been meaning to stop at.) She embraces the undeclared possibility in what seems like just another ordinary day. (her friend is scheduled for cancer surgery and suddenly everything around her seems so very precious.)

In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.

Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.

A company can seize extra-ordinary opportunities only if it is very good at the ordinary operations.

If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.

Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.

Do you know what constitutes a great poet? He is a person without shame, incapable of blushing. Ordinary fools have moments when they go off by themselves and blush with shame; not so the great poet.... If you really have to quote someone, quote a geographer; that way you won't give yourself away. (p 44)

I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary world in which we live, and yet which reflects and comments upon that known world.

There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well.

I do love acting. But to work as a photojournalist would have been extraordinary.

A bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. "You want to be careful with those," Ron warned Harry. "When they say every flavor, they mean every flavor - you know, you get all the ordinary ones like chocolate and peppermint and marmalade, but then you can get spinach and liver and tripe. George reckons he had a booger-flavored one once." Ron picked up a green bean, looked at it carefully, and bit into a corner. "Bleaaargh - see? Sprouts.

On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.