Ordinary Quotes - Page 3

Extraordinary moves of God begin with ordinary acts of obedience.

In the midst of an ordinary training day, I try to remind myself that I am preparing for the extraordinary.

The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.

If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.

To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something ordinary, something you’d see every day, and recognize it as a photographic possibility - that is what I am interested in.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You are aware of the beating of your heart. The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment.

Ordinary people seem to not like me. They tend to think that I’m a little weird.

When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen.

I leave these speculations to others. It’s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One doesn’t have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty.

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.

Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.

La Paz, Bolivia, is the most extraordinary city.

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.

Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

Shamanic journeying is the inner art of traveling to the 'invisible worlds' beyond ordinary reality to retrieve information for change in any area of your life - from spirituality and health to work and relationships.

If you feel weak, limited, ordinary, you are the best material through which God can work.