Quotes of: Ordinary-person Keyword

I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.

Graham Swift

I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.

Camille Claudel

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

Sun Tzu

In an ordinary suit and tie, I'd look like a little macho. I'd be ridiculous.

Azzedine Alaia

When you drop thinking that you are ordinary, you open up to potential to be an extraordinary.

Vishwas Chavan

In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that "a woman is as good as a man," without always pausing to...

Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

No one can become successful for you. It takes personal definitions, personal decisions, personal convictions, personal actions and personal responsibility to succeed in life.

Making Success Deliberate

Any given moment—no matter how casual, how ordinary—is poised, full of gaping life.

Fugitive Pieces

We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as "ordinary blessings.

Blue Nights

...ordinary experience has to be made extraordinary in order to become accessible to reflection.

In the age of the smart machine

What is ordinary to you maybe a desert of woeful newness to another.

How Green Was My Valley

The road less traveled continues to beckon me onward, towards a journey of transformation and engagement.

Radically Ordinary

May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby.

The Sense of an Ending

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

The Sufis

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

Ordinary People

People look for greatness only in the extraordinary and completely overlook the wonder of the ordinary.

Promises to Keep

Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen on the ordinary apprentice. That is probably the best indictment with our fascination with celebrity in our culture, which drives me crazy.

David Cassidy

Even the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary simply by doing it with the right people.

Nicholas Sparks

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

Oswald Chambers

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

Paul Ricoeur

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

Robert Bresson