It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people. — Anuj Copy Share Image
Love doesn't have to be perfect. Even perfect, it is still the best thing there is, for the simple reason that it… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the… — John Irving Copy Share Image
We should assume that we all have a lot in common. Speak as if our views are the only sensible ones. This… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments… — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
[However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most… — William Styron Copy Share Image
In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I am not a speaker nor a preacher. I have no mission to change the world. I have no original words or… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Wherever a man separates from the multitude, and goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man [Maigret] is just a decent man doing a very ordinary… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
There's not a drop of hero's blood in my whole body, so spare me the praise. I'm just an ordinary guy, and… — Hiroshi Sakurazaka Copy Share Image
India's middle-class knows better than most how hard and lonely the struggle of an ordinary man can be. — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual. — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
Spirituality is the sacred center out of which all life comes, including Mondays and Tuesdays and rainy Saturday afternoons in all their… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being? — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Im not anything special. A lot of people can do what I do the only difference is that, Id always had this… — POB Bismark Copy Share Image
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image