Ordinary Quotes

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.

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

Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.

You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

To turn ordinary clothes into gardening clothes, simply mix with compost.

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

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.

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.

Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.

Ordinary life does not interest me.

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

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?

There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary mediocrity into bright and shining excellence.

To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.

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.

The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience emptiness when the mind is free of grasping at appearance.

Unless people can express themselves well in ordinary English, they don't know what they are talking about.

The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.

We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear.

I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.

The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.

You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself.

We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he that pays the price.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary.

I cannot understand it, after all I am only a very ordinary sort of fellow.

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

It is not special to be special, it's special to be ordinary

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

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.

Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance in both the ordinary and the non-ordinary worlds.

I think it's important that members of the United States Senate spend time not just on Capitol Hill but making contact with ordinary people and engaging them in the political process.

The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful.

To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

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

When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!

The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.

There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.

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.