Everyday Things Quotes

• If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Lying, Way To Live, Moments

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Yvonne Pope (2006). “Laura Ingalls Wilder's Prairie Wisdom”, p.11, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• When you really consider the everyday things around you, they start to seem like tiny miracles.

  Amy Shearn

  Miracle, Tiny, Seems

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• I realize that the memories I cherish most are not the first night successes, but of simple, everyday things: walking through our garden in the country after rain; sitting outside a cafe in Provence, drinking the vin de pays; staying at a little hotel in an English market town with Larry, in the early days after our marriage, when he was serving in the Fleet Air Arm, and I was touring Scotland, so that we had to make long treks to spend weekends together.

  Vivien Leigh

  Country, Memories, Drinking

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• Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements in the picture or through the human interest of the situation photographed or by calling our attention to some commonplace but fascinating thing we have never noticed before or it can be achieved by looking at an everyday thing in a new interesting way.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Photography, Interesting, Quality

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• Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things

  Simon Van Booy

  Everyday

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• Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God’s creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things- things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there.

  Oswald Chambers

  Inspiration, Simple, God's Creation

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.114, Discovery House

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• The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.

  Donald A. Norman

  Design, Unnecessary Things, Becoming

  Donald A. Norman (2013). “The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.183, Basic Books

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• The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.

  Aries Spears

  Exaggeration Is, Average, Comedian

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• I can’t worry too much about the everyday things. Otherwise I’d lose touch with my own world, that helps me as an artist, but it’s frustrating for the people around me. I’m vaguely functional, but there’s always something slightly off.

  Florence Welch

  Artist, People, Worry

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• Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Common, Attractive

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• When you talk to people about the books that have meant a lot to them, it's usually books they read when they were younger because the books have this wonder in everyday things that isn't bogged down by excessively grown-up concerns or the need to be subtle or coy... when you read these books as an adult, it tends to bring back the sense of newness and discovery that I tend not to get from adult fiction.

  Jesse Sheidlower

  Book, Discovery, People

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• Personally, it's not my thing, and I don't love it. But I have a soft spot for it now. Who knows? Maybe the lavash market will explode after this movie [Sausage Party]. Lavash will become an everyday thing for people.

  David Krumholtz

  Party, People, Sausage

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Practice following your intuition in everyday things, trusting your gut feelings moment by moment and acting on them as best you can. As you learn to trust yourself in smaller matters, you will build power and confidence to take bigger risks and deal with the larger issues in your life successfully.

  Shakti Gawain

  Practice, Issues, Feelings

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• One of the most amazing revelations of God comes to us when we learn that it is in the everyday things of life that we realize the magnificent deity of Jesus Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Deities, Realizing

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.95, Discovery House

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• This love for everyday things,
  part natural from the wide eye of Infancy,
  part a literary calculation

  Billy Collins

  Eye, Natural, Infancy

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• You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.

  Warren Buffett

  Effort, Ordinary, Needs

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• We're taught that domestic life is not a "serious" political topic, like war and peace, but the fact is that we spend most of our lives doing everyday things: at the dinner table, in the kitchen, washing dishes, grocery-shopping, commuting. These things make up the fabric of our lives.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  War, Shopping, Political

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Everything I dream is something simple and plain and everyday. That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have

  Ally Condie

  Dream, Simple, Knows

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.159, Penguin

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• We Sioux spend a lot of time thinking about everyday things which in our minds are mixed up with the spiritual. We see in the world around us many symbols that teach us the meaning of life. We have a saying that the white man sees so little, he must see with only one eye. We see a lot that you no longer notice. You could notice if you wanted to, but you are usually too busy. We Indians live in a world of symbols and images where the spiritual and commonplace are one…We try to understand them not with the head but with the heart

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Spiritual, Heart, Eye

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• Life excites me-just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting.

  Liv Tyler

  Bed, Littles, Normal

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• Forgiveness is not a one-time thing that happened the day you received Christ. It is an everyday thing, for the rest of your life.

  Joyce Meyer

  Rest Of Your Life, Christ, Happened

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• It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.

  Evan Davis

  Thinking, Ideas, Littles

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• Healthy foods are great, but it's important to keep your body active. Your muscles only get stronger and build more endurance for everyday things if you're moving and get the blood pumping. Exercising stimulates certain brain chemicals and can put you in a better mood!

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Moving, Exercise, Blood

  "Jenna Answers Your Fitness Qs!". www.seventeen.com. March 23, 2012.

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• I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.

  Steven Wright

  Hero, Talking, Jokes

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