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Ordinary Extraordinary Quotes

The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal. George A. Sheehan
It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. Boris Pasternak
What I bring to the interview is respect. The person recognizes that you respect them because you're listening. Because you're listening, they feel good about talking to you. When someone tells me a thing that happened, what do I feel inside? I want to get the story out. It's for the person who reads it to have the feeling . . . In most cases the person I encounter is not a celebrity; rather the ordinary person. "Ordinary" is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across... Studs Terkel
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man..."
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace Marquis de Sade
William Halsey quote: "There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary..."
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. William Halsey
Dean Stanley quote: "The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary..."
The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way. Dean Stanley
She squeezed my hand, and I drew a shaky breath, marveling at the fact that while on an ordinary leave in an ordinary place, I'd somehow fallen in love with an extraordinary girl named Savannaah Lynn Curtis. Nicholas Sparks
Nicholas Sparks quote: "Even the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary simply..."
Even the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary simply by doing it with the right people. Nicholas Sparks
Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object. Gilles Deleuze
Henry Miller quote: "By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create..."
By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves. Henry Miller
C. S. Lewis quote: "Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary..."
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny. C. S. Lewis
As I have reviewed the past [several] years, I have made some discoveries. One is that countless experiences I have had were not necessarily those one would consider extraordinary. In fact, at the time they transpired, they often seemed unremarkable and even ordinary. And yet, in retrospect, they enriched and blessed lives—not the least of which was my own. I would recommend this same exercise to you—namely, that you take an inventory of your life and look specifically for the blessings,... Thomas S. Monson
Barack Obama quote: "A change is brought about because ordinary people do..."
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things. Barack Obama

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