Top 1200 Ordinary Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.

I think the movie, 'Joy,' has so many touchpoints with so many people because it is about the ordinary, but a lot of the times, the ordinary is extraordinary.

Creativity is not simply originality and unlimited freedom. There is much more to it than that. Creativity also imposes restrictions. While it uses methods other than those of ordinary thinking, it must not be in disagreement with ordinary thinking-or rather, it must be something that, sooner or later, ordinary thinking will understand, accept, and appreciate. Otherwise the result would be bizarre, not creative.

The decision to do it [play Maigret] was related to the fact that the character is a very ordinary man, and generally speaking I haven't played very many ordinary men.

I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equally unique perspective on the world as someone who is famous or perhaps more privileged.

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.

If we have plain old ordinary fear then we are within reach of a solution. Fear has been with humankind for millennia and we do know what to do about it-pray about it, talk about it, feel the fear, and do it anyway. Artistic fear, on the other hand, sounds somehow nastier and more virulent, like it just might not yield to ordinary solutions-and yet it does, the moment we become humble enough to try ordinary solutions.

I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things.

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra.

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

The interesting thing is that in everyday life, I fail to see the most ordinary things. I often stumble and sometimes I even fall over. But when I draw or look at a painting, I go into a sort of overdrive and just see things differently than other people.

It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes

The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me... and the more of these words I heard the smaller I always felt! But the truth is often very different... and for me to learn that ordinary me can achieve something extra-ordinary by giving that little bit extra, when everyone else gives up, meant the world to me and I really clung to it.

May we all be faithful in doing the day-to-day, ordinary things that prove our worthiness, for they will lead us to and qualify us for great things.

Champions do ordinary things better than everyone else.

I'll stick to finding the funny in the ordinary because my life is pretty ordinary and so are the lives of my friends - and my friends are hilarious.

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

I take it that reasonable human conduct is part of the ordinary course of things.

Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I wear suits that are cheap. But I say what I think and I believe what I say, and I'm willing to say things that are not popular but ordinary people know are right.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus.

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

I couldn't remember ordinary moments, only the ones that had made an impression. Ordinary moments were the ones that fell away first.

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.

Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary.

Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.

I'm a tomboy at heart. I always like to say that I'm an ordinary girl doing extraordinary things.

By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time when they are little, but then something happens. It's not that we stop singing. I still sang. I just made sure I was alone when I did it. And I made sure I never did it accidentally. That thing we call 'bursting into song.' I believe this happens to most of us. We are still singing, but secretly and all alone.

And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

Have you ever realized that you can give things to God that are of value to Him? Or are you just sitting around daydreaming about the greatness of His redemption, while neglecting all the things you could be doing for Him? I'm not referring to works which could be regarded as divine and miraculous, but ordinary, simple human things - things which would be evidence to God that you are totally surrendered to Him.

Through persistence and hard work, we can each unlock the potential God has given us. We have within us not only the capacity to accomplish great things but also the ability to do ordinary things in extraordinary ways.

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.

In the course of American history, great steps are taken by ordinary people, and ordinary people are not perfect.

Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.

Liberals don't believe that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. If they promoted that, there'd be no need for liberalism.

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.

Democracy elevates by turning ordinary people into extraordinary ordinary people called celebrities.

How can you do anything extraordinary by doing things the ordinary way?

The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.

She squeezed my hand, and I drew a shaky breath, marveling at the fact that while on an ordinary leave in an ordinary place, I'd somehow fallen in love with an extraordinary girl named Savannaah Lynn Curtis.

People always step up and do things out of the ordinary at the Olympics.

The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.