Intentionality and talent always matter. An extraordinary feat is certainly made more likely by someone's focus, hard work, etc. But chance also… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion. — N. R. Narayana Murthy Copy Share Image
God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
That helped me to keep in touch with myself and to keep in touch with this really quite extraordinary language and literature… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Lenny Breau dazzled me with his extraordinary guitar playing... I wish the world had the opportunity to experience his artistry. — George Benson Copy Share Image
Makeup is an extraordinary tool that allows me to share my inspirations, my fantasies, and my vision with the world. — Pat McGrath Copy Share Image
Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
'Jane Eyre,' when I think of that book, it conjures up the best moments of college English courses. Literature is extraordinary, especially… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
It's extraordinary to think that if you walked into a room and said you had never heard of Hamlet, you would be… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Just as computer technology and the Internet created whole new industries and extraordinary benefits for people that extend into almost every realm… — Anne Wojcicki Copy Share Image
Keep the faith...that the best is yet to come. Keep the faith that the next extraordinary version of you is being crafted… — Les Brown Copy Share Image
Guilt? It's this mechanism we use to control people. It's an illusion. It's a kind of social control mechanism -- and it's… — Ted Bundy Copy Share Image
Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
I told a joke and people laughed and it was the best feeling. I knew I wanted to do this as a… — Chris Tucker Copy Share Image
The right of ordinary citizens to possess weapons is the most extraordinary, most controversial, and least understood of those liberties secured by… — Joyce Lee Malcolm Copy Share Image
Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
You would be surprised how many people that are very passionate about classical music are deeply involved in Hip Hop. You would… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses:… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Human beings, because we're so clever, have removed every single one of those population limiting factors... So nothing controls our increase in… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I met Peter Brook, the theater director, who's been based in Paris for many years at the Bouffes du Nord. I admire… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“...today, I’m writing about the extraordinary; those ‘moments’ in life that reach us, and change us. Those moments take place all the… — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
When I first saw California, it was extraordinary. Because I came from old, black, dark England, still recovering from World War II.… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
In the midst of an ordinary training day, I try to remind myself that I am preparing for the extraordinary. — Shalane Flanagan Copy Share Image
The difference between being ordinary and extraordinary is doing the right thing while nobody is watching. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
To create an extraordinary quality of life, you must create a vision that's not only obtainable, but that is sustainable. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
If it comes easy, if it doesn’t require extraordinary effort, you’re not pushing hard enough. It’s supposed to hurt like hell. — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of monuments to adults - usually dead and usually white. But we don't often lift up the extraordinary… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He… — Thomas Keller Copy Share Image
Ayrton Senna was an extraordinary racing driver. His skills, craft, subtlety and courage were of such magnitude that he dwarfed his generation… — Ron Dennis Copy Share Image
To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I did make some money, the first money that I ever made, doing this last one, and it's an extraordinary feeling just… — Duncan Roy Copy Share Image
I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a… — Balthus Copy Share Image
The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
The key to building wealth is to preserve capital and wait patiently for the right opportunity to make the extraordinary gains. — Victor Sperandeo Copy Share Image
This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Oregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their state's National Guard. — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
