Ordinary Quotes

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A company can seize extra-ordinary opportunities only if it is very good at the ordinary operations. — Unknown Author
In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have to develop within… — Alexander Kotov
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop… — Confucius
The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and… — George Orwell
A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the… — Garry Kasparov
Nimzovitch became then for me more or less the author of the only book which could help me get away from these Euwe books, which,… — Bent Larsen
Thus, on this World Refugee Day, let us take time to recognize and draw inspiration from these ordinary people who have shown such extraordinary courage… — Antonio Guterres
Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present… — William Ames
The hours that ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage. — Robin Sharma
The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others. — Anatoly Karpov
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. — Loren Eiseley
When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life. — Ramana Maharshi
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but… — Gustave Flaubert
A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to… — BrenÃ© Brown
We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as passion or as… — Edmund Burke
There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may be a certain… — Josiah Wedgwood
One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch… — John Perry Barlow
SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical habits would have… — Thomas Jefferson
To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not… — Aldous Huxley
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the… — Loren Eiseley
In strongly opposing the world of play to that of reality, and in stressing that play is essentially a side activity, the interference is drawn… — Roger Caillois
Normal, ordinary people do not think like a Serial Killer. They have no conception of what is going on in a killer’s mind, how he… — Richard Ramirez
My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting… — Ai Weiwei
Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human. — Ai Weiwei
Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources. — Ai Weiwei

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