Ordinary Quotes
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It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction. And you can't ever take the next step until you take the first.
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Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.
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I don't want to be considered a hero.... Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.
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I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.
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Here’s what I think: the only reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way.
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She [Marilyn Monroe] wasn't the most incredibly beautiful. She's rather ordinary. Cute, but no Rita Hayworth. I think she was ready for the camera, and it was a real destiny for her.
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There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were not buddhas in the beginning. The path to buddhahood is traversed only through gradually developing more and more courage and DETERMINATION -then it is attained.
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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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Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.
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It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.
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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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The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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I leave these speculations to others. It’s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One doesn’t have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty.
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Your kid's ordinary. And so are you.
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The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.
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The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
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When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers.
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Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.
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I think art can take ordinary things and show them to you like it's the first time you've ever seen them. And you realize that even ordinary things aren't really ordinary at all -Salma
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Faith is believing things by definition, which are not justified by reason. If it were justified by reason, it wouldn't be faith. It would just be ordinary belief. It's something you can't prove. That's what faith is, believing something you can't prove.
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There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.
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I think I’m ready. I think I’m ready to show that I’m not ordinary.
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“Ranged from bad to ordinary.”
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It's the ordinary things that seem important to me.
