Ordinary Quotes

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.

We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance.

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.

Tantra is the science of transforming ordinary lovers into soul mates. And that is the grandeur of Tantra. It can transform the whole earth; it can transform each couple into soul mates.

A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians.

When you consciously choose to be ordinary, you become extraordinary.

In the midst of an ordinary training day, I try to remind myself that I am preparing for the extraordinary.

Extraordinary moves of God begin with ordinary acts of obedience.

The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.

Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.

No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared.

Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

Ordinary people seem to not like me. They tend to think that I’m a little weird.

Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

The ordinary Christian with the Bible in his hand can say that the majority is wrong.

When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen.

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.

Fashion is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving.

One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've got a good strong rope. Every Dharma is known in the heart.

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.

If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.

Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.

Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.

It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.

It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

Love is a romantic designation for a most ordinary biological process-or, shall we say, chemical-process ... a lot of nonsense is talked and written about it.

Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids.

No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts" and a "Doctor of Philosophy" after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.

At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance.

You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.

In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.

Ordinary faithfulness leads to extraordinary impact.