Extraordinary Quotes

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.

I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.

The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning will be stated.

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

I am here to seduce you into a love of life; to help you to become a little more poetic; to help you die to the mundane and to the ordinary so that the extraordinary explodes in your life. .

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

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

Reality is always extraordinary.

Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.

The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit!

My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings.

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.

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

It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires a kind of philosophical thinking, thinking in terms of epochs.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

Vision - You dream the impossible; You imagine the incredible; You achieve the extraordinary.

The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.

Mentorship is the key to extraordinary success.

Heroism is an extraordinary feat of the flesh; holiness is an ordinary act of the spirit. One may bring personal glory; the other always gives God glory.

I have never sought out the extraordinary or the scoop. I looked at what complemented my life. The beauty of the ordinary was always the source of my greatest emotions.

Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.

When the human body is put under exceptional strain, a range of dormant genes in the DNA are expressed and extraordinary physiological processes are activated.

And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

Most champions are built by punch the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts.

Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.

Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to find those extraordinary moments.

It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.

I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

Ordinary [people] avoid troubles. Extraordinary [people] turn them into advantage.

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

Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him.

Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them.

I love underdogs, people who have achieved extraordinary things against the odds.

I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.

Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.

The view from the window, particularly if you enjoy neon, is extraordinary.

Everything is in flux: everything changes; the body changes, the soul changes. We are capable of extraordinary self-transmutat ion and internal self-transforma tion.

I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.

Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little.

The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.

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

The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.

Lenny Breau dazzled me with his extraordinary guitar playing... I wish the world had the opportunity to experience his artistry.