Top 1200 Extraordinary People Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

If you approach India in the right way, you have so much to learn there about people, and there's so many people. It's such an extraordinary setup, and it's so bewildering how it manages to get through somehow, you can only wonder at it.

People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.

The definition of successful people is simply ordinary people with extraordinary determination. You cannot keep determined people from success. If you place stumbling blocks in their way, they will use them for stepping-stones and climb to new heights. People who succeed have a goal, a dream and make their plans and follow them.

I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations.

Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact on the their world.

The number of people in America killed by firearms is extraordinary compared to other nations, and I don't think we're a bloodthirsty country. We need to look at everything we can do to safeguard our people.

Pay any price to stay in the presence of extraordinary people.

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

Leadership is inspiring extraordinary people to step up and serve their country.

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

So one thing that I want to do is to make people realize that astronauts in general are very normal people. They are down to Earth, so to speak. I know it sounds contradictive, but we are very normal people. We are very normal people with a fantastic privilege and opportunity to do something that is extraordinary.

When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen.

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.

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

Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.

No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.

Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks.

I'm not interested in superheroes. What about normal people doing extraordinary things?

I keep saying my books don't have superheroes. They have ordinary people in extraordinary situations.

... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the fear of becoming the they that is talked about so dismissively, to refuse lying myths and easy moralities, to see ourselves as human, flawed, and extraordinary. All of us extraordinary

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was that ordinary people, when they are working together can do extraordinary things.

There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

At its best, technology can empower people in extraordinary ways.

For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding extraordinary moments in otherwise normal people.

I met the most extraordinary people all over the Pacific, but especially the people in Vanuatu who, in a material sense, are the poorest people I've ever come across. They own nothing, but in a well-being sense, they are easily the wealthiest people that I've come across.

The human spirit is extraordinary. If we give the 3 billion people who live in poverty the opportunity to change their lives, they will. For too long, we've looked at needing to "save" these people - with an emphasis on "these people" - rather than removing the constraints keeping them from solving their own problems.

We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that's the paradox because the only thing extraordinary about it was that it was so ordinary. Nobody had ever done it before, deliberately. Now it's called documentary, which I suppose is all right ... We just took pictures that cried out to be taken.

My daughter could do and be anything, without having to fight to get through the glass ceiling. Without having it be so extraordinary. If my daughter went to produce a soundtrack for a movie, there would be nothing extraordinary about a girl doing it. When I did it, it was highly unusual.

I believe Success is achieved by ordinary people with Extraordinary Determination.

Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

I love underdogs, people who have achieved extraordinary things against the odds.

We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people.

...ordinary people are capable of doing truly extraordinary things.

I'm really interested in real people in extraordinary situations. The detail and reality to that.

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.

I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.

Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination. They simply don't know how to quit. They just keep on 'keepin' on'.

My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.

This movie [ Buried] is strange, because it's such an extraordinary situation, both as a character and as an actor. Both of us are going through an extraordinary situation at the same time, and it was odd. It was weird not having a co-star to cut away to for the most part. It just forces you to never have a deficit in the performance.

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

I think Churchill would have thought it extraordinary that we would have thought ourselves so successful, so powerful, so well thought of in the world that we could afford to give up this extraordinary relationship we have in this great European Union.

love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.

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People like you to be ordinary, but they prefer you if you're extraordinary. They want you to be a star.

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

I get inspired by the notion of transforming people into extraordinary versions of themselves.

There was, when I came to New York in the 1970s, no more profound or moving experience than MoMA, an almost perfect piece of 20th Century modernist expression, existing in an extraordinary balance - modestly, functionally, elegantly - with the extraordinary art it held. This place changed my life. I was transformed by every visit.

People can say some extraordinary things when they're hiding behind a keyboard.

When you're young and going to war, it's a genuinely exciting moment. You are going to risk yourself. On the battlefield, you are suddenly free. You realize: I'm here, I'm in it. Exaltation. Suddenly you're hit by another extraordinary feeling: my God, I can be killed. And: will I embarrass myself? It's like you're in a kaleidoscope and all of these extraordinary feelings are zipping by.

The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

My father was a socialist, so we had some of the most extraordinary people at home.

Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.

The world does not reward average people so I will be extraordinary.

Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them.