Quotes About Ordinary

Ordinary people can do extra ordinary things when they create opportunity towards their passion

Any given moment—no matter how casual, how ordinary—is poised, full of gaping life.

The real troubles with living is that living is so banal.

there are no great things in life, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to Meet.

The wretchedness of ordinary life, endured so gaily when it is part of our normal existence, is made far worse when it comes as something new, and is exaggerated by the working of the imagination.

Thoughts in the past are clear and empty and leave no traces behind. Thoughts in the future are fresh and unconditioned by anything. And in the present moment, when (your mind) remains in its own condition without constructing anything, Awareness at that moment in itself is quite ordinary.

I also hope this book makes each reader aware that his or her personal observations and encounters in the most ordinary of landscapes can and will raise questions and issues routinely avoided by programmed educational and entertainment authorities.

Commonplace wisdom is the best kind of wisdom for common needs and every-day occasions.

So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

It's for us that the University exists, for the dispossessed of the world; not for the students, not for the selfless pursuit of knowledge, not for any of the reasons that you hear. We give out the reasons, and we let a few of the ordinary ones in, those that would do in the world; but that's just protective coloration.

To me, photography is about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place…I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

were almost commonplace.

Meninas bonitas em contos de fadas são tão banais como seixos na praia.

Destiny is out of ordinary. But guess what? It is meant to be discovered and fulfilled by the ordinary in an extraordinary way.

What it takes to command the attention of the world is just to do the ordinary things extraordinarily. Yes! that's just the stuff. Anyway, do you long to command the attention of the world? If yes, then endeavour to do everything you ought to do extraordinarily.

Tot ceea ce iese din cadrele acceptate ale vie?ii de fiecare zi se ipostaziaz?, deoarece umanul are grani?e care exclud neobi?nuitul.

t is idle to expect an ordinary man born in the purple to have greater genius than an extraordinary man born out of the purple; to expect a man whose place has always been fixed to have a better judgment than one who has lived by his judgment; to expect a man whose career will be the same whether he is discreet or whether he is indiscreet to have the nice discretion of one who has risen by his wisdom, who will fall if he ceases to be wise.

It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I'd miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I'm sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.

It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambience was what I'd miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I'm sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Matter matters to God. The most ordinary things are drenched in divine possibility. Pronouncing blessings upon them is the least we can do.

Children who find a single important life in the ordinary, unimportant, and unheroic are less likely to succumb to the human fallacy of Us versus Them [Betty Levin, "Polars Bears and Lemmings"].