Ordinary Quotes - Page 5

What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open for a moment to reveal some possibility never previously considered.

Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it.

Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.

It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.

If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.

You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.

The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.

Creativity is the ability to look at the ordinary and see the extraordinary.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.

There are three kinds of friends in the world. An ordinary person sees only who you are; for that you don't need a friend. Then there's a friend who sees in you what you can be. And then there's the real holy Friend, and the presence of this Friend you are already.

Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

St. Joseph was an ordinary sort of man on whom God relied to do great things. He did exactly what the Lord wanted him to do, in each and every event that went to make up his life.

Champions do ordinary things better than everyone else.

We didn't know if ordinary lunatics or just unstable people on the ground could feel incited to harm me.

My life certainly hasn't been ordinary: different is the word. It hasn't always been stable - except in the important things which are love and security within the family. Whenever there were strains at home, we could always communicate. The rule was that the younger you were, the louder you were allowed to scream. As the eldest, I just talked.

Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.

My images were surreal simply in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality. My only aim was to express reality, for there is nothing more surreal than reality itself. If reality fails to fill us with wonder, it is because we have fallen into the habit of seeing it as ordinary.

I find supermarkets fascinating places. It's extraordinary, you can buy anything there.

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day

Everything has two aspects: the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only rare individuals may see in moments of clairvoyance and metaphysical abstraction.

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

We danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and we kissed too sweet, and howled just as loud as we wanted to howl, because by now we were all old enough to know that what looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.