Top 1200 Extraordinary Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

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

Potentially he could be. He scored the goal four years ago in France against Argentina that was extraordinary.

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

It is extraordinary to have time to again study Le nozze di Figaro and discover new things.

I'm really drawn to adventure, and characters being plucked from normal life and sent on extraordinary adventures.

Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It's extraordinary. There's a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy, and that's wonderful.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.

The NBA has been extraordinary in its use and embrace of social media; they are by far the leader in professional sports.

you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way.

It's such an extraordinary time to be alive that you just don't want to miss it. I mean, it's a really neat historical period.

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

People say, "I have heart disease," not "I am heart disease." Somehow the presumption of a person's individuality is not compromised by those diagnostic labels. All the labels tell us is that the person has a specific challenge with which he or she struggles in a highly diverse life. But call someone "a schizophrenic" or "a borderline" and the shorthand has a way of closing the chapter on the person. It reduces a multifaceted human being to a diagnosis and lulls us into a false sense that those words tell us who the person is, rather than only telling us how the person suffers.

'Last Resort,' to me, is very much about finding truth and integrity in an extraordinary situation.

What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.

The extraordinary summer heatwave of 2003 in Europe resulted in over 35,000 extra deaths.

There are all kinds of monuments to adults - usually dead and usually white. But we don't often lift up the extraordinary work of children.

I'm seeing a guy now who has nothing to do with films. It's so much nicer with somebody who isn't an actor. Two crazy people in one house would be too much. It's better there's one crazy person, and one nice person who looks after that crazy person.

We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.

Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.

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

I have a very nice garden and extraordinary markets, where there are products from the earth and the sea, in the French Basque country.

Gord Downie is extraordinary. It's safe to say there's nobody like that guy that I've ever come across.

Extraordinary is a player who can score 60 goals. There are not a lot. Otherwise I think we would overuse the term.

I am grateful to have played a small role in the conversations that have helped guide this extraordinary nation's destiny.

What was extraordinary about Occupy London was that it was a village with a louder voice than one of the biggest cities of the world.

I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.

The Chinese have done some extraordinary things in terms of the investments they've made in alternative sources of energy.

Music is an extraordinary locksmith; it is so competent that it can open our soul's door even with closed eyes!

To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.

Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.

We don't enter relationships hoping to create an extraordinary existence; we come to them to share one with someone else.

I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in.

The potential for cognitive and related technologies to help us pursue new business offerings is extraordinary.

I think I may try and write something about my pretty extraordinary experience with the 101st in Iraq.

I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it.

Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.

If you are a woman, if you're a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. And it's going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. Especially women's and gay men's culture. It's all about how you have to look a certain way, or else you're worthless... For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution, and our revolution is long overdue.

Often, what I tell a new CEO asking for advice, or one of my own new leaders, is the two most important decisions that your team is going to watch is the first person you hire and the first person you promote - because you are saying that's the type of person I want.

There are dimensions to me that are not just the thinking person, but the person who is much richer, the person who has other emotional experiences, psychological experiences, these experiences also enrich me.

It was going to be so much fun dragging his complacent sexual views out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary.

From testimonials and personal experience we have enough information to conclude that IT'S POSSIBLE TO DESIGN AND LIVE AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE

It isn't necessary to seek out adventure. Opening to what is around you will produce the most extraordinary experiences.

I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm.

I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary.

When I was a teenager, I remember the extraordinary feeling of accomplishment for completing 'Vanity Fair.' I don't think it was even for school.

It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.

I am excited by the opportunity to join such an extraordinary group of athletes and be a part of the 'Lucha Underground' family.

Newspapers have an extraordinary amount of local content, including real estate listings and restaurant reviews.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

A Pakistan that falls apart, becomes a failed state, would be of extraordinary danger to Afghanistan and to America.

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

The difference between being ordinary and extraordinary is doing the right thing while nobody is watching.

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

It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.

Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.