Extraordinary Quotes

We become extraordinary when we realize how extraordinary our existence is.

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

The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.

By consciously deciding how you will live the rest of your life, you can create a life that is extraordinary.

No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all that there is in life, it seems to me.

In photography we possess an extraordinary instrument for reproduction. But photography is much more than that. Today it is [a method for bringing optically] some thing entirely new into the world.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

I believe Success is achieved by ordinary people with Extraordinary Determination.

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary gentle, not a man but - a cloud in trousers.

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

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

Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.

By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.

Courage is the moment when an ordinary being becomes an extraordinary being.

The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination.

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

For me, the difference between an ‘ordinary’ and an ‘extraordinary’ person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.

I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah.

Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

The striking thing about America is - it's historically, extraordinary unusual, I don't of any other instance - is that productivity of workers and wages have not moved in tandem.

It always takes a group of people working together with a common purpose in an atmosphere of trust and collaboration to get extraordinary things done.

It's quite extraordinary that a recourse (branding/identity) which is generally regarded as so significant, and is now so ubiquitous, is so little understood.

Seize the day. Make your life extraordinary.

The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice.

Art transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Liberals don't believe that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. If they promoted that, there'd be no need for liberalism.

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds.

Maybe God is calling you to do something extraordinary that isn't on your calendar; something to revive your soul!

Nobody would have ever guessed-I wouldn't have guessed-the extraordinary degree to which you can reduce social violence through meditation.

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

To extraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

It is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary.

When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.

Dream the dream, find that extraordinary vision, and keep it in focus.

I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.