Ordinary Quotes

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Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity. — Emily Carr
It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic studies the player… — Howard Snell
Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naïve faith, requires… — Reinhold Niebuhr
For lack of a few pinches of ordinary iodised table salt in the diet of a third world pregnant mother, a child can lose up… — Sheryl WuDunn
An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing… — Betty Edwards
Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: 'Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything to live for! I… — William Duncan Silkworth
It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband. — Melissa Bank
Ordinary love is mere animal attraction. Otherwise why is the distinction between the sexes? If one kneels before an image, it is dreadful idolatry; but… — Swami Vivekananda
I believe that they were brave people. One should be of courageous character to do what they had done, not only this, one should be… — Vladimir Semichastny
When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts" and a "Doctor… — Helen Rowland
The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine. — Thomas Merton
The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which. — Piero Scaruffi
To face one who is extraordinary,I cant allow myself to be ordinary — Unknown Author
A wound that’d make an ordinary man unconscious, I won’t lose to it. A wound that would kill an ordinary person, I won’t lose to… — Unknown Author
If we do the ordinary, God will add an extra to it. — Mark Batterson
God loves to use ordinary people just like you and me, faults and all, to do extraordinary things. — Joel Osteen
What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of… — Andy Couturier
Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows. — Mark Batterson
If we transform our ordinary mind into love and compassion we will naturally act in a positive way. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic… — Carl Jung
Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self. — Susan Griffin
It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at… — Jonah Lomu
It is very difficult to be like the other guy, to be ordinary. Mediocrity takes a great deal of energy. But to be ourselves is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession,… — Kiefer Sutherland

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