Ordinary Quotes

Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

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

Ordinary faithfulness leads to extraordinary impact.

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.

She’s a smart woman. I love that. Intelligence is a wonderful and powerful aphrodisiac. To me, it enhances beauty, makes an ordinary woman look like a movie star.

I always like doing things that no one's ever done before. Doing things a little out of the ordinary.

If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical manoeuvre. If a writer is silent, he is lying.

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

There are no great men, only ordinary men, who have met extraordinary challenges.

Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you forget the ordinary.

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

If you feel weak, limited, ordinary, you are the best material through which God can work.

When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee.

Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters.

Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it.

What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.

One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don't want to get involved in this.

The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time.

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

I don't work at being ordinary.

Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and to find consolation and peace in their presence.

If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.

In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.

Creativity is the ability to look at the ordinary and see the extraordinary.

The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.

Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Champions do ordinary things better than everyone else.

You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.

St. Joseph was an ordinary sort of man on whom God relied to do great things. He did exactly what the Lord wanted him to do, in each and every event that went to make up his life.

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day

We didn't know if ordinary lunatics or just unstable people on the ground could feel incited to harm me.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.

Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.

Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.

The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience, which in its very nature transcends linguistics.

You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.

What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary.

This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism

Our perspective is what holds the key to whether the solution is ordinary or extraordinary.

To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.