Extraordinary Quotes

Belief gives you the power to achieve the extraordinary

By choosing a precise intersection between subject and time, he may transform the ordinary into the extraordinary and the real into the surreal.

Sometimes you meet people who can't swim. And I always think: 'Oh my God, that's extraordinary.' For me, it's always been a treat I just feel really happy in the water.

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

Sean Chen has been an audience favorite from the early rounds. With his floppy hair and outstanding stage presence combined with an extraordinary technique and musicianship, this is little wonder.

There are really only two ways to react to the extraordinary. The first is to ponder the grand purpose until all the fun is sucked away, the second is to enjoy it.

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.

In a good meeting there is a momentum that comes from the spontaneous exchange of fresh ideas and produces extraordinary results. That momentum depends on the freedom permitted the participants.

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people.

I'm glad some people have that faith. I don't have that faith. If there is a God, a caring God, then we have to figure he's done an extraordinary job of making a very cruel world.

If it happens every year like clockwork, what's so extraordinary about it?

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.

. . . we will never be prompted by the Holy Ghost to do something we cannot do. It may require extraordinary effort and much time, patience, prayer, and obedience, but we can do it.

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.

It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary.

Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words.

This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most companies.

I adored my mother, and I will always have extraordinary memories about her and remember her, and she opened the doors for me to appreciate arts.

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordina ry.

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.

My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.

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

What is an Extraordinary Life? A life of meaning, a magnificent life, a life of joy, happiness, love, passion, success, and fulfillment. Life experienced on your terms.

I really enjoy travelling around the world. I get to meet some extraordinary people.

I think what teenagers lack is the belief that they can be unique and extraordinary in life. Make the most of your age because you're not going to be a teenager forever!

I have very strongly this feeling that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.

Everybody likes an extraordinary person or likes to think that they would be great with a superpower in an ordinary world.

It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.

It had been an enormous, extraordinary, outrageous adventure. And it was deadly.

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

Each individual is as individual as their fingerprints, and I think that's extraordinary.

What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.

The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.

The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.

There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.

I was born by God's dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly.

in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.

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

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

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