Top 1200 Extraordinary Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I am thrilled to join the extraordinary team at Crime Watch Daily. It's a perfect platform for enterprise reporting.

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

With repeated listenings, a piece eventually becomes its own being. I very often say to students that this is like meeting a person for the first time. When you first meet someone, you reference that person with others who are similar; but, as you get to know that person better, you begin to understand his unique qualities.

The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.

When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.

"I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said. "I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold things in and try to forget or pretend, I become a madman and have panic attacks. I have to talk.

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

I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that that person is an intelligent, rational, well-intentioned person: it is fantasy. We know that ... the market is subject to irrational optimism and pessimism, and is vindictive ... You're dealing with a crazy man ... Having got what he wants he will still kill you.

Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.

If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space.

Like any extraordinary power, surveillance provides temptations for abuse, such as tracking political opponents and journalists.

Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'

If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.

Opera requires an enormous commitment. You must devote your whole life to producing that extraordinary sound.

President Clinton is one of the dominant figures on the global stage. He has lived an extraordinary life, and he has a great story to tell.

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Whenever teenage girls and corporate CEOs covet the same new technology, something extraordinary is happening.

I'm drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big part of the human condition.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles.

I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

Often, when cheating happens, we rush to place blame solely on one person - either the person who did the cheating, or more insidiously, if it happened to us, we blame ourselves for not being 'good enough' to keep them around. But putting it all on one person doesn't paint the entire picture.

Transformation is only valid if it is carried out with the people, not for them. Liberation is like a childbirth, and a painful one. The person who emerges is a new person: no longer either oppressor or oppressed, but a person in the process of achieving freedom. It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

I always hear people saying, "If I can just help one person, or if I can just stop one person from doing what I did." I don't think one person is enough. I feel you can help more than one person, help as many as you can. That's something that I would like to leave as my legacy: That I helped a lot of people and made some people make better decisions after looking at the decisions I've made in my life.

An extraordinary set of reminiscences, beautifully put together by an extremely sensitive, even gifted interviewer. It is a jewel.

Leadership is the art of creating a working climate that inspires others to achieve extraordinary goals and levels of performance.

I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

I love shows about creating and cooking. Sometimes they're so extraordinary, you end up setting yourself to fail.

He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.

I am particularly looking forward to meeting ordinary American people and hearing about their extraordinary lives.

I think the facts reveal that the European partners have taken extraordinary measures to help Greece address its problems.

It's an extraordinary story told with simplicity. 'Raazi' is about people who put the country before anything else.

There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God and that makes the difference.

It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.

I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.

The key to building wealth is to preserve capital and wait patiently for the right opportunity to make the extraordinary gains.

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.

America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.

Some people spend their entire lives thinking about one particular famous person. They pick one person who's famous, and they dwell on him or her. They devote almost their entire consciousness to thinking about this person they've never even met, or maybe met once. If you ask any famous person about the kind of mail they get, you'll find that almost every one of them has at least one person who's obsessed with them and writes constantly. It feels so strange to think that someone is spending their whole time thinking about you.

I think we love the fantasy of being the one person who can really touch the person who has been untouchable for everybody else. There's something that makes us feel very special about that; that we could be the one out of everyone who's tried and everybody who's wanted to reach that person - you're the only one who could do it.

In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.

Messi is awesome. His creative ability is extraordinary, outside of normal patterns. He manages to see what others don't.

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.

In addition to being an extraordinary actor, Bryan Cranston is a really generous guy and also very funny.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

One of my extraordinary regrets about my death is not so much that it's going to happen but simply that I'll never know what happens next.

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.

Faith allows us to confidently walk with God into a future filled with joy; one that can become an extraordinary and amazing adventure.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.

I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.

How important is excitement to happiness? The key is to get excited about the mundane-- not just extraordinary things

I've learned that nobody is either all good or all evil. We all make mistakes, but we all are also capable of accomplishing extraordinary things.

When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary ideas.

Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.