Quotes About Exceptional

I'm not spectral, but I've been told I can be pretty damn phenomenal.

We wouldn't want the shit we do to not be epic," I said. "Hell no. Ordinary shit is just shit.

This makes you real special," Lula said. "It's like you're a reality show, all by yourself.

I know my energy level is unlike others. I know that my capacity to really think fast is unlike others, but I also know the price that comes with it.

I am the most unlikely star in the world.

I think monogamy is a little unnatural, if I'm totally honest. You change. Things alter. It's the exception rather than the rule and I think it's exceptional to cope with it and manage it. It's hard work.

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

I don't take a movie unless it offers me something unusual.

I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me.

Serious crime is very, very rare, and I think all of us are interested because they are rare and unusual. If they were banal and everyday, we wouldn't be interested in them at all.

I don't know if six picks in a draft is a record, it's not the kind of thing I would look at, but it's unusual.

My upbringing as a child was very atypical.

I do have a somewhat unique upbringing.

Upward mobility across classes peaked in the U.S. in the late 19th century. Most of the gains of the 20th century were achieved en masse; it wasn't so much a phenomenon of great numbers of people rising from one class to the next as it was standards of living rising sharply for all classes. You didn't have to be exceptional to rise.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.

I don't work at being ordinary.

When the human body is put under exceptional strain, a range of dormant genes in the DNA are expressed and extraordinary physiological processes are activated.

I don't do ordinary work. That is not me in the least.

One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer.

There never has been before and never will be again another Steve Irwin.