Extraordinary Quotes
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All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.
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I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.
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To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.
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Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.
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Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
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The main goal in my life is to make extraordinary things out of the ordinary.
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The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.
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Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.
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What made me love thee? let that persuade thee, there's something extraordinary in thee
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The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals.
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Extraordinary performances come out of a process of continuous, regular physical and mental practice. The mindset of an extraordinary athlete is relaxed but focused and open to even higher achievements.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their full value and true meaning. It would apprehend in all particulars the connection between the familiar and the extraordinary, and the seen and unseen of human nature.
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We can begin a discussion of artmaking by noting that from very early (as long ago as 200,000 years), humans have been naturally attracted to the extraordinary as a dimension of experience and that at some point they seem also to have been moved to make the ordinary extraordinary-that is, to shape or elaborate everyday, mundane reality and thereby transform it into something special, different from the everyday.
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His Grace explained his choice of bride as follows: “Why would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
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We become extraordinary when we realize how extraordinary our existence is.
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Gord Downie is extraordinary. It's safe to say there's nobody like that guy that I've ever come across.
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I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.
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The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning will be stated.
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I'm a regular person with an extraordinary job.
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Why would I take a conventional wife, when I could have an extraordinary one?
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Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.
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Make your world extraordinary! Step out into this world with confidence and treasure yourself.
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We will never have total control over this extraordinary dimension. Time will warp and confuse and baffle and entertain however much we learn about its capacities. But the more we learn, the more we can shape it to our will and destiny. We can slow it down or speed it up. We can hold on to the past more securely and predict the future more accurately. Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special.
