Quotes About Exceptional

I didn't say there was nothing BETTER,' the King replied. 'I said there was nothing LIKE it.' Which Alice did not venture to deny. 'Who

There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie's opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.

You are unique, and this is a beautiful, beautiful thing, grasshopper.

She is the elephant's eyebrows

There's no such thing as hideously ordinary. If something is hideous, it's automatically extraordinary. In a hideous way.

En opinión de Evie había pocas cosas peores que ser normal. Lo normal era para los paletos. Ella quería ser especial. Una estrella brillante.

You're the elephant's eyebrows, doll.' He said.

Think back over the history of any sport. Very often there has been one guy who stood out above the superstars - just as (Ray) Guy stands out in punting. It just happens.

Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.

Finding such a person makes everyone else appear so ordinary…and if anything happens to him, you've got nothing left but to return to the ordinary world, and a kind of isolation that never existed before.

That was the chief difference between literature and life. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.

Viata e insa atat de banala,incat literatura trebuie sa se ocupe de lucrurile care ies din comun.

In short, our Marianne is just not in the common style. We shall simply have to present her as an original." She sobered abruptly. "How very stupid Perry was, to be sure. This girl might have changed his life." To this uncharacteristically severe judgment on the part of his normally charitable parent, the marquess returned no answer.

He was a golden boy in a world of brass and tin.

You have to be odd to be number one

You have to be odd to be #1.

Good women are rare too, none of them have come close.

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.

There are no ordinary lives.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.