Ordinary Quotes

In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

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

I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f--- out of me.

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.

Art transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it.

Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.

If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested.

Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.

We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.

Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.

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.

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

After eighteen years of being utterly ordinary, I finally found that I can shine" -Bella Swan <3

The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.

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 know it's not ordinary. But who ever loved ordinary?

Great men are just ordinary men that didn't quit.

Coaching doesn't make sick people well...it helps healthy people become extra-ordinary.

Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.

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

Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results.

Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon-feed them and look after them and look after the country, because they won't.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

I don't have any magic way for studying. Mostly just talking hands/strategy with people whose opinion I respect. Nothing out of the ordinary.

Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.

It is almost a sadness to my soul that men should be astonished and surprised at an ordinary, tangible evidence of the power of God.

Smart people underestimate the ordinarity of ordinary people.

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

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

Find joy in the ordinary.

The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.

I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.

Ordinary people can spread good and bad information about brands faster than marketers.

It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction. And you can't ever take the next step until you take the first.

The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.