Best 1038 quotes in «ordinary quotes» category

This is the thing I've noticed is that the greater the distance between you and any ordinary task is the measurement of how much rockstar potential you have.

This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural.

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism

Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling the judge of their condition. We must strive to walk by faith.

Through persistence and hard work, we can each unlock the potential God has given us. We have within us not only the capacity to accomplish great things but also the ability to do ordinary things in extraordinary ways.

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

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 - the world's millions of refugees and displaced.

To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.

Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

To see something spectacular and recognise it as a photographic possibility is not making a very big leap. But to see something ordinary, something you’d see every day, and recognize it as a photographic possibility - that is what I am interested in.

To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach.

To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.

To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into a sacred context is often mistakenly misconstrued as the ordinary pursuit of sex for recreation.

True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This is most visible in extraordinary lives, in saints and martyrs. But it is no less true for ordinary people like us.

To turn ordinary clothes into gardening clothes, simply mix with compost.

Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most wonderful pieces of poetry and ordinary information. It is a matter of some interest, that the only other volume A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt reminds one of is Ake, by Wole Soyinka. What is it about these Yorubas?

Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.

Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.

Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.

Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.

We bless the life around us far more than we realize. Many simple, ordinary things that we do can affect those around us in profound ways: the unexpected phone call, the brief touch, the willingness to listen generously, the warm smile or wink of recognition. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.

Valuing unusual conduct is not as good as being careful about ordinary actions.

Von Neumann languages do not have useful properties for reasoning about programs. Axiomatic and denotational semantics are precise tools for describing and understanding conventional programs, but they only talk about them and cannot alter their ungainly properties. Unlike von Neumann languages, the language of ordinary algebra is suitable both for stating its laws and for transforming an equation into its solution, all within the "language.

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

We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear.

We chose whether to be warriors or to be ordinary.

We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!

We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?

We do not have a South African as a member of the African Commission. The President of the Commission comes from Mali, the Deputy comes from Rwanda and then we have got all these other members, ordinary commissioners. There is no South African there. And the reason, again, for that is not because we didn't have South Africans who are competent.

We have to transform those ordinary actions of our day into dharma practice because otherwise nothing is going to move.

We know, from ordinary life, that we are not able to direct our attention perfectly steadily and uniformly to one and the same object... At times the attention turns towards the object most intensely, and at times the energy flags.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives. If you give them a chance, everyone has something amazing to offer.

Well, honestly I feel like an ordinary woman.

We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the society it serves to the more ominous threat to its integrity brought about neither by its innate inadequacy nor yet by the incompetence and carelessness of its ordinary users, but rather engineered deliberately by those who will manipulate words for their own ends.

We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.

We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.

We need the word proclaimed so that we hear the gospel clearly, but then it's also very natural to have people talk about the Christian faith in ordinary conversation.

We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.

We're all ordinary in a way. We can all be hurt. We can all be unbalanced. We all have feelings. Life can treat us harshly, even shockingly sometimes.

We're all pretty ordinary on paper.

We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.

We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people.

We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren't too screwed up.