Top 1200 Extraordinary People Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I long to be ... Like Other People! The extraordinary, ungetatable, oddly cruel Other People, with their way of wantonly hurting and then accusing you of being thin-skinned, sulky, vindictive or ridiculous.

Self-actualizing people - highly functioning people who live at extraordinary levels of awareness - train their minds to focus on what they intend to create and what they intend to manifest, and they won't let anybody change their mind.

What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!

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

Participation in the collective life of the polis both restrains the extraordinary individual and enlarges the ordinary individual, allowing him to participate in the extraordinary. An individual can achieve participatory excellence via the accomplishments of the polis and need not always be caught up in the agnostic struggle to outdo his peers.

I like to tell stories about people trying to make the right, difficult decision at the least opportune moment... People in a crucible of an extraordinary circumstance. And then, how that experience changes their life.

The people who do the most extraordinary things in the world are never "realistic." They're passionate. They trust themselves.

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

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.

The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase - it's extraordinary.

I have such an extraordinary platform where I am able to help people. To me, that's the number one priority.

Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.

At least in part, people are attracted to subjects where they can identify at a basic level with the people who do it. The extraordinary aesthetic of the natural world is not obvious to someone who never leaves the inner city. Appreciation of the elegance and power of physical law is an acquired taste.

[Edward Snowden and his team] they're great characters. They're fascinating people. They were in an extraordinary situation.

People generally have the idea that Donald Trump is a great communicator. And the press has acknowledged this guy has extraordinary communication skills. I think what doesn't come through is his humility. I know some people might laugh at that comment, and he likes promoting his brand. But at times he can be extremely humble. He likes people and wants to help people.

These people that dress up in spandex trousers with all the extraordinary makeup - I find it incredibly repulsive, always have.

Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.

Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.

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

I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the White House. Not only black people; a lot of white people thought that, too, but particularly black people.

We sit for a week and listen to an extraordinary amount of people talk about what they do in the intelligence world. It's pretty overwhelming.

It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it.

Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.

People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.

Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting.

I never heard my mom say, "Not now, I'm busy." But I did have extraordinary experiences that I'm very aware were extraordinary. I mean, I traveled Europe before I was 12 years old, had been to the White House numerous times. Andy Warhol photographed me; Michael Jackson called our house.

If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew. ...An American student once said to me, you know, isn't it extraordinary that I am alive and you're not dead.

The whole Ireland was taken over by greed and materialism. It was extraordinary. The price of every house had skyrocketed. If you were a small farmer and you had two fields outside, if you built 17 bungalows on them all, you become a millionaire, that kind of thing. It was extraordinary to see how rapidly that kind of ethic takes over a whole culture, but that's what's happened to us since the year 1998, about. It's completely extraordinary how little regard the culture had for the landscape. The country is now full of these half-built industrial parks and hotels.

People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won't be shocked. Or judgmental.

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

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

There are some very creative people out there who are like Steven Meisel, and that is why their work is so extraordinary.

Central Philippines has the competitive edge in tourism in its natural wonders and the extraordinary hospitality of its people.

I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

No matter what people may think about American foreign policy, there is broad and overwhelming interest in engaging with the United States on issues related to entrepreneurship. People associate this promise with America, and that's an extraordinary asset for our country.

I think if people want to see pure sex in the movie, they have the Internet and the extraordinary things are available.

There is something extraordinary about people who have a disability to reach (into themselves) on a daily level that becomes supernatural.

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

It's OK to not have all the answers, and in fact, the more extraordinary people you are able to surround yourself with, the better you will become.

I'm inspired by many of my friends, colleagues, and the extraordinary people I've been fortunate enough to meet along the way.

Even very ordinary people, upon closer examination, can often look extraordinary.

It's extraordinary how a physical disability makes people think that somebody is frail.

People are inherently good. Our souls are magnificent and capable of extraordinary performance.

I really enjoy travelling around the world. I get to meet some extraordinary people.

God loves to use ordinary people just like you and me, faults and all, to do extraordinary things.

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.

Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

I just think Josephine Baker life story needs to be done. I think she was an extraordinary woman. To see someone who was basically a showgirl have the kind of lifestyle she had was extraordinary. I really think she made her own lifestyle.

When you think about it, psychological thrillers often involve extraordinary events happening to ordinary people.

In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people.

Reed Morano is an amazing woman and one of the most extraordinary people I've had the chance to work with.

We as black people are not a monolithic bunch. We are not all the same, and neither are women. Instead, we are all individuals who have these extraordinary stories to tell and share with each other that will enrich all of our lives and help us all become more ourselves and better people.

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

People should show up and vote at the polls, unless there's an extraordinary reason not to do so.

I just want to remind us all there are billions of people in the world who are deeply religious, who get enriched by the wonderful sense of community by their religion. But these same people do not embrace the extraordinary view that the Earth is somehow only 6,000 years old.

Some people can do one thing magnificently, like Michelangelo, and others make things like semiconductors or build 747 airplanes -- that type of work requires legions of people. In order to do things well, that can't be done by one person, you must find extraordinary people.

Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.