Quotes About Extraordinary

It's no coincidence that geniuses not only dare to dream of the impossible for their work, but do the same for their lives. They're audacious enough to think that they're not just an ordinary player.

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Some people like to think that geniuses are so inherently extraordinary that they navigate their journeys with clairvoyant ease. This simply isn't true. Greatness does not come lightly. It requires that you make sacrifices of time, interests, and--sometimes--possessions.

To read history, to debate history, is to test our assumptions in the laboratory of real events; to learn, in the process, some appropriate humility about our capacity to forestall crises; and to grasp that extraordinary moments generally demand that ordinary assumptions be hurled out the window. Model-based social sciences, with their search for certainties that appear constant in large sets of data, teach neither humility nor flexibility.

How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

some men are just too interesting to die

Elizabeth Bennett had been obliged, by the scarcity of gentlemen, to sit down for two dances; and during part of that time, Mr. Darcy had been standing near enough (some twenty yards away -- well within the reach of her extraordinary ears) for her to hear a conversation between him and Mr. Bingley...

In movies, we are accustomed to seeing handsome actors. It's so commonplace on the screen, large or small, that we barely note it as extraordinary. But in life, rarely do we encounter an onslaught of beauty, entire a hive of handsomeness, find ourselves awash in an ocean of attractiveness, drowning in a miasma of hotness.

just plain awesome.

Sometimes it is the part of us that is not like others that makes us special, that is our talent. I

My usual self is a very unusual self.

Normal is gross

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.

I do not know what happened, Beth, she cried, but I do know it must have been something dreadful. You are both such dear people, and I know something quite extraordinary must have driven you apart.

You're not like me. No one is like me. I'm a phenomenon.

Yeah. Like ordinary things seem more special.

some man of power must have existed, with gifts that seemed miraculous to his own times.

It is an extraordinary fact, unremembered by most, that in the Anglosphere people live by laws that did not originate with governments at all.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

A change happens because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

What an extraordinary privilege to be able to make the world better

If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.

I prefer to remain anomalous.

Pop culture writing is about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Literature is about extraordinary people in ordinary circumstances.