Top 1200 Ordinary People Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary people perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each person's strength to help all the other members perform.

Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.

When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters.

We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.

In our prayer and meditation we hope for fulfilling ordinary life.

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me

When people come up to me expecting me to be just like what they thought a Beatle would be, they're disappointed. I never was a Beatle, except musically. I don't think any of us was. What is a Beatle anyway? I'm not a Beatle or an ex-Beatle or even the George Harrison. I'm just a man. Very ordinary.

Only miracle is plain; it is in the ordinary that groans with the weight of glory.

Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.

There's this theme throughout my life of Diana cropping up. It doesn't feel ordinary.

So when we come across somebody who does understand this and makes an effort to try and explain it to us, some people freak out and turn that person into either an object of worship or, some people freak out and want to kill that person. I think it's because they know what's true but they don't want to know, they don't want to face up to what that actually means. So they're going to kill the messenger and hope that by doing so they'll destroy the message so they can go back to living their ordinary life again.

The ordinary focus on what they're getting. The extraordinary think about who they're becoming.

True fighters dare face the sorrows of humanity, and look unflinchingly at bloodshed. What sorrow and joy are theirs! But the Creator's common device for ordinary people is to let the passage of time wash away old traces leaving only pale-red bloodstains and a vague pain; and he lets men live on ignobly and amid these, to keep this quasi-human world going.

Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.

The difference between ordinary players and champions is the way they think.

I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things.

Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.

The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.

Publishers, theatrical managers, and critics ask not for the quality inherent in creative art, but will it meet with a good sale, will it suit the palate of the people? Alas, this palate is like a dumping ground; it relishes anything that needs no mental mastication. As a result, the mediocre, the ordinary, the commonplace represents the chief literary output.

Sandra Kasturi's magical poems transform the ordinary into the surreal and exotic.

He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.

There’s nothing wrong with ordinary. I just prefer to shoot for extraordinary.

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.

I don't believe in God. But sitting there, in a room full of those who feel otherwise, I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds, I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for -- even if it's just a better tomorrow -- is the most powerful drug on this planet.

Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.

The 'great' commitment is so much easier than the ordinary everyday one.

An ordinary visit to a beautiful garden always creates an extraordinary time!

I want to help you decide that, by the power of God, you will not be ordinary.

How can you do anything extraordinary by doing things the ordinary way?

Here’s what I think: the only reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way.

As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.

There was nothing ordinary about Hank Gathers. He was a walking thunderbolt.

Don't wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do in ordinary life. It's amazing that those twenty-six little marks of the alphabet can arrange themselves on the pages of a book and accomplish all that. Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.

In one way, traveling has narrowed my mind. What I have discovered is something very ordinary and unexciting, which is that humans are the same everywhere and that the degree of variation between members of our species is very slight. This is of course an encouraging finding; it helps arm you against news programs back home that show seething or abject masses of either fanatical or torpid people. In another way it is a depressing finding; the sorts of things that make people quarrel and make them stupid are the same everywhere.

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbor he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ verse latitat - the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.

Something out of the ordinary is that I got bit by an alligator at one of my parties.

Extraordinary moves of God begin with ordinary acts of obedience.

Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.

The problem with climate change is that it's quite complicated for the ordinary person to understand.

Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.

Tom Hanks has built his career playing ordinary men.

I think that those of us who are ordinary disappear easily into the backdrop of life and we take things for granted. We often wake up in our lives and wonder how we got there. But the characters I create, the people I am drawn to, are quite extraordinary (and not always in wholesome ways), and they offer us the chance to understand who we really are and how we became who we are.

Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.

Making the ordinary potentially magical is what film should be all about.

Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.

Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.

I love the idea of ordinary women making extraordinary sacrifices.

The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service.

All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary.

I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.