Do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

— John W. Gardner

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

— Jim Rohn

We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

— Catherine McAuley

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

— Marie Angelique Arnauld

To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

— Jim Rohn

Ask anyone what that means, what it means to see a miracle, and they will say that it's something impossible, but they mean that…

— Michael Cisco

The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real…

— Allan Kaprow

What do we talk about? Just ordinary things. What happened today, or books we've read, or tomorrow's weather, you know. Don't tell me you're…

— Haruki Murakami

I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator,…

— Jeff Kinney

The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the…

— Michel de Montaigne

I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them…

— Andy Warhol

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

— Anonymous

“Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that…

— Arundhati Roy

The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does…

— Oswald Chambers

End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating…

— Karen Thompson Walker