Ordinarily Quotes
114 Ordinarily quotes by 99 unique authors
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Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies…
— William James
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Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much…
— Edward Sapir
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An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all…
— Warren Buffett
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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which…
— Byron White
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Any attempt to capture the direct experience of the nature of mind in words is impossible. The best that can be said is that it…
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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Angels speak. They appear and reappear. They feel with apt sense of emotion. While Angels may become visible by choice, our eyes are not conducted…
— Billy Graham
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The ancient yogis discovered that the secret of cosmic consciousness is intimately linked with breath mastery. This is India's unique and deathless contribution to the…
— Sri Yukteswar Giri
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Shamans can be defined as socially sanctioned practitioners who purport to voluntarily regulate their attention and awareness so as to access information not ordinarily available,…
— Stanley Krippner
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Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily…
— Richard Mitchell
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I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.
— Thomas Hooker
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I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's…
— Alexis Bledel
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I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Ordinarily it would take me about fifteen minutes to get a hallucination going," wrote Feynman, "but on a few occasions, when I smoked some marijuana…
— Richard P. Feynman
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We must drop the idea that change comes slowly. It does ordinarily - in part because we think it does. Today changes must come fast;…
— Donald M. Nelson
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Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us…
— Pema Chodron
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
— Gordon W. Allport
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But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than…
— Charles Nodier
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Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to…
— John Crowe Ransom
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Brand-name growth stocks ordinarily command the highest p/e ratios. Rising prices beget attention, and vice versa - but only to a point. Eventually their growth…
— John Neff
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The southern German has the imagination and emotionality to subscribe to a fanatic ideology, but he is ordinarily inhibited from excesses by his natural humaneness.…
— Arthur Seyss-Inquart
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Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it…
— Pico Iyer
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How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded.
— M. Scott Peck
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Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What we…
— Jacob Needleman
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