Top 1200 Extraordinary Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

This is the first day of my new beginning. From now on I'm going to do things right. I'm going to be a different person, a good person. I'm going to be the kind of person who would be remembered well, not just remembered.

Michael Derrick Hudson is not the first person to slip into the identity of a person of color to give himself some perceived advantage. He can slip back into his life and not walk around in this world as a person of color who endures racism.

The cloud is one of the most extraordinary opportunities of our lifetime. If we're not investing now, we'll rue the day we didn't.

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

Always the rationalization is the same-"Once this situation is remedied, then I will be happy." But it never works that way in reality: The goal is achieved, but the person who reaches it is not the same person who dreamed it. The goal was static, but the person's identity was dynamic.

There is so much vulgarity in the everyday, that when somebody has the pretension to do something extraordinary for the community, then you have to suffer.

If there's a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we'll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we're going to wind up sitting next to that person at his or her mother's house that night for dinner.

I'm sad to have left Spain because in my opinion LaLiga is an exceptional, unique and extraordinary league.

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.

She couldn't steal herself back from Randa only to give herself away again - belong to another person, be answerable to another person, build her very being around another person.

An extraordinary writer....It is the vastness of Nick Tosches’ heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness.

I have no question that when you have a team, the possibility exists that it will generate magic, producing something extraordinary But don't count on it.

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

Canada's extraordinary success is that we have bound together a vast country with a set of shared ideas and beliefs.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

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

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

The extraordinary thing about the record industry is how success can take off without warning.

I think if I just do what I do every day, on the extraordinary Olympic stage, I could be a podium contender.

I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.

'Happy Valley' is an extraordinary piece and it was not necessarily about Catherine but her part in the narrative.

No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.

When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary.

We are being called into realization with great urgency and extraordinary beauty, and oftentimes not without difficulty.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don't at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic

To put on the pinstripe - it's extraordinary. Just being able to play one game with the Yankees is quite an honor.

Then there was the man who declared in court, he wasn't a person. "Excuse me, sir, why haven't you paid your taxes." "Well, as you can clearly see, I am not a person." "Well, you look like a person." "No it's all done with mirrors, trust me!"

My way in for photographing people is really their work. I'm always interested in what people make, and then I photograph the person. Sometimes the person is a disappointment. But that's the risk. It informs me a lot about the character of a person if I know their work first.

In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S. is.

I'm always producing with the idea that the music is representing one person. That could play a factor in the intimacy of it. I'm always producing for that one person, never for a group of people - especially if it's non-danceable. I'm always thinking that one person's going to listen to this and that person might want to feel a certain way at a certain time. That can be out in space, it can be at the bus stop, it can be laying in bed listening to music. I look at it as if I'm whispering in someone's ear, basically.

The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.

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

Consumerism, what kind of car you have, what kind of house you have in the country and so on, and that is all very incidental when you examine the kind of person he may be. He may be a big bore, and then there is a person who hasn't done a thing in the world and he is a fascinating person.

What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!

The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him

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

I'll forever be grateful to NPR that they gave me such extraordinary freedom... It was 37 years of a fond relationship.

It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.

The grapevine in England is an extraordinary thing. When there is a really brilliant young composer or soloist, we all hear about it.

It's hard to imagine going back to Italy, despite my experience in Serie A being extraordinary.

I am always pleased to talk about Buffon. He is an extraordinary player, a professional with values.

I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would rather be, the person you most want to become. Gradually, the old, fearful person will fade away.

Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.

Any side that wins 21 out of 22 rounds is clearly doing something extraordinary.

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

I love visiting Landmark Trust properties, which tend to be historical follies in extraordinary places.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are stories that depict us in a way that isn't cliched or niche, and that a white person, a Chinese person, an Indian person can watch and relate to. Those are the stories I want to be a part of telling.

I am really two people. I am a private person and a political person. Of course, if there is a conflict, the political person comes first.

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.

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

I sometimes think that the only person fit to inherit wealth is the person who doesn't need an inheritance - the person who would create his own fortune no matter what his start in life - and have come to view inherited wealth as an affliction.

If it comes easy, if it doesn’t require extraordinary effort, you’re not pushing hard enough. It’s supposed to hurt like hell.