A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
(The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“I'd rather be an ordinary person doing extraordinary things, than being an extraordinary person doing ordinary things.” — Kenneth G. Ortiz Copy Share Image
The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems. — Alfonso A. Ossorio Copy Share Image
Every person has ordinary story because extra-ordinary things happens only in dreams or movies. — Harry Jordan Copy Share Image
Sometimes the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary, just by doing them with the right people. So choose to be around… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. — Marie Angelique Arnauld Copy Share Image
Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I decided to participate in 'HawthoRNe' was I really wanted the opportunity to show how ordinary people… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
School is now a place where punishment and discipline are prioritized over serving students and educating them. Any moment where a student… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about Hain is that he's not a very interesting character. He's not fabulously clever. He's not a great policeman.… — Robbie Coltraine Copy Share Image
It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“But reason... tells us that merely with repetition the extraordinary becomes ordinary, and only briefly abandoned, what had once passed for a… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“What kind of weirdo makes cheese? It's too hard to imagine, too homespun, too something. We're so alienated from the creation of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I want to observe the ordinary things of earth—the moon, the stars, the rainbows, even the yellow leaves of the old cherry… — Christie Purifoy Copy Share Image
“Reuven, as you grow older you will discover that the most important thing that will happen to you will often come as… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
“What is it? The ordinary is EXTRAORDINARY. The ordinary is extraordinary. The ordinary is the thing we want back when someone we… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
“The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our… — Oswald Chambersd Chambers Copy Share Image
I don't understand writers who feel they shouldn't have to do any of the ordinary things of life, because I think that… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
There is something about the Himalayas not possessed by the Alps, something unseen and unknown, a charm that pervades every hour spent… — Frank Smythe Copy Share Image
“But why would they do that? What is to be asked? He was a man who sees into things -- very ordinary… — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
“What would you do if you saw something nobody else could see?” The tape gun fell out of Luke’s hand, and hit… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else. — Chuck Noll Copy Share Image
An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special. — Ruth Asawa Copy Share Image
She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life. — Eric Rohmer Copy Share Image
“Great men and women are not extraordinary people who do extraordinary things. They are ordinary people who do ordinary things with integrity.” — Jayce O'Neal Copy Share Image
