Top 1200 Extraordinary People Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

We need groups like the Women's March reminding elected officials that they have a responsibility to create pathways of opportunity, and if - and when - they aren't doing that, everyday people are going to put a little "extra" on their ordinary and extraordinary things will happen. At this moment, the not-so-quiet voices rumbling across the country and the world are saying we absolutely and unequivocally deserve better.

Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.

I decided to practice alone because it was a challenge for me to see how much I love tennis. And making sure I was not trying just to respond to other people's expectations and that I really wanted it myself. I realized that I just loved tennis, that it was something extraordinary, that I would really want to do that.

A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations. As you become more famous, people come and expect to hear something extraordinary, so you don't want to disappoint them. I feel this sense of responsibility.

There is extraordinary chemistry that exists in long-term relationships

The ordinary focus on what they're getting. The extraordinary think about who they're becoming.

That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

I want my story to help others see what's extraordinary in themselves.

It's an extraordinary thing to do, to go into the military and to serve your country.

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

This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making.

I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

The reason I've gotten so far has to do with an extraordinary talent that I had nothing to do with.

Everyday can be extraordinary And ripe, Like a flower burst, If the will is there.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

Griezmann is an extraordinary player who adapts to all the needs of the team.

The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.

The Oval 2018 was one of the most extraordinary Tests I've been involved with.

Only an extraordinary person can turn opportunity into reality.

The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well.

Extraordinary imagination, especially in a witch world. Also friendship.

It's extraordinary these obsessions. You conquer one but then you move onto another.

This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.

The Irish turned in on themselves and bid up their own land prices in the most extraordinary ways... The Irish people stepped in and guaranteed the banks, and committed to repay sums they can't afford to repay, and essentially committed themselves to generations of suffering.

The future belongs to God, and it is only he who reveals it, under extraordinary circumstances.

There's smarter people than me. But you cannot have any one guy running 18 billion-dollar businesses. It just doesn't make sense to me. I've met some extraordinary leaders in my time. They struggle with running one billion-dollar business.

You would be surprised how many people that are very passionate about classical music are deeply involved in Hip Hop. You would think Jazz would be the natural associative, but it's extraordinary what kind of crossed-genre associations we are finding in digital media. And even as I'm talking about it, I find myself speaking very much more about how people are accessing that which, what I do, rather than me being preoccupied trying to market something that I do to them.

You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.

Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to come work in the Western Bloc. It was extraordinary because people in East Berlin just wanted to know what was happening. Music. Fashion. The news. All of the things we get every day.

It's extraordinary to think that if you walked into a room and said you had never heard of Hamlet, you would be regarded as a Philistine. But you could walk into the same room and say, 'I don't know what a proton is,' and people would just laugh and say, 'Why should you know?'

Genius is nothing more than an extraordinary manifestation of the body.

Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids.

I've been champion of every organization that I've worked for. I'm something extraordinary.

The primary means-of-reviva l that everyone agrees upon is extraordinary prayer.

The affection shown to me by the Schalke fans is extraordinary and unforgettable.

I'm a marketeer, and I thought the message discipline in the Leave campaign was extraordinary.

I don't like being in the limelight. It is not something extraordinary. It is just my habit.

Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.

I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.

To face one who is extraordinary,I cant allow myself to be ordinary

Struggles? I think it's natural if you want to do something extraordinary.

As artists we have an extraordinary and rare privilege to tell the stories of our people, our land, our culture. They grip us, tear us apart, and put us back together. We are our stories.

The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.

I tell you, the arts - and especially ballet - the discipline is extraordinary. I was extremely impressed.

The flow of people in a setting, their changing relationships to each other and their environment, and their constantly changing expressions and movements - all combine to create dynamic situations that provide the photographer with limitless choices of when to push the button. By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.

A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.

It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication of some defect in the government, frequent appeals would in great measure deprive the government of that veneration which time bestows on every thing, and without which perhaps the wisest and freest governments would not possess the requisite stability . . . a constitutional road to the decision of the people ought to be marked out and kept open, for certain great and extraordinary occasions

Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.

I honestly don't see anything that extraordinary about my game.

As soon as it is seen, the extraordinary starts becoming ordinary!

Messi is class. There is him, and then there is the rest. What he does is extraordinary.

One of the things that puzzles me is that so few people want to look at life as a totality and to recognize that death is no more extraordinary than birth. When they say it's the end of everything they don't seem to recognize that we came from somewhere and it would be very, very strange indeed to suppose that we're not going somewhere.

If it happens every year like clockwork, what's so extraordinary about it?