Ordinary Quotes

2227 Ordinary quotes by 1506 unique authors

Coaching doesn't make sick people well...it helps healthy people become extra-ordinary. — Thomas Leonard
... I don't like to go into the studio with all the songs worked out and planned before hand ... you've got to give the… — Keith Richards
Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary… — Elwyn Brooks White
I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more… — Wallace Thurman
I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a… — Tracy Kidder
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives — Tracy Kidder
I cannot but regard the ether, which can be the seat of an electromagnetic field with its energy and its vibrations, as endowed with a… — Unknown Author
Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from… — Jon Krakauer
Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things. — Theodore Levitt
More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of… — Joseph Lelyveld
Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players… — Pat Riley
It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the… — Unknown Author
...ordinary people are capable of doing truly extraordinary things. — Unknown Author
Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without… — Richard Bach
Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude: it can only… — Robert Anton Wilson
Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He… — Benjamin Tucker
That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The long-range sloution to high unemployment is to increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest, work, and employ others. We make it costly… — Milton Friedman
The evidence of history speaks with a single voice. I do not know any exception to the proposition that if you compare like with like,… — Milton Friedman
In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting… — M. Scott Peck
The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience,… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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
The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things. — Peter Drucker
It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is more… — Wilfred Trotter
One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value… — Thomas Merton

Who Wrote These Ordinary Quotes

1,506 authors contributed a total of 2,227 Ordinary Quotes, led by these top contributors: