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Last updated on November 30, 2024.
What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.
I like examining the ordinary, and by doing so, one hopefully reveals the extraordinary nature within.
..That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary.
For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.
Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.
What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?
I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.
The worst Persian voluptuary could never have imagined my most ordinary day.
Rae Carson's heroine is a perfect blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary. I loved her.
The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.
I was just an ordinary student. I'd always gotten along with authorities quite well.
Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.
I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
Don't worry about your background, whether it's odd or ordinary, use it, build on it.
The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
I was just an ordinary player with a big heart and a fighting spirit to recommend me.
Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
You have to give kids from ordinary families a ladder. You have to show them there's a way out.
Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.
I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit.
The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
I cannot understand it, after all I am only a very ordinary sort of fellow.
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.
By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.
Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.
I love to hear about ordinary people's lives and interests and what motivates them.
What is it that brings on these moods of yours?
Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.
I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.
Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.
For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.
I have no sympathy for debunking human achievements that, in the end, gave ordinary people liberty.
Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.
How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.
When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton.
If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.
Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.
You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.
Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.
If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset.
There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.
I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.
Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.
I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.
There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
An ordinary pushup is much more advanced and challenging performed on a stability ball.
I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.
We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.
It is only when we decide that 'ordinary' is an insult, that we become the exquisite miracles we were born to be.
