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Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.

Irena Sendler

Inspirational Life, Hero, Normal

"Irena Sendlerowa: Warsaw social worker who rescued thousands from the Jewish ghetto". Rupert Cornwell, The Independent, May 14, 2008.

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It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

Warren Buffett

Motivational, Investing, Buffets

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It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

Peter Shaffer

Strong, Tire, Bores

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Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Michael Gerber

People, Ordinary, Great Business

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Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.

Emily Carr

Practice, Trying, Ordinary

Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.58, D & M Publishers

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Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

Pope Francis

Love, Faith, Christian

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I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things.

Iyanla Vanzant

Ordinary, Committed, Persons

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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.

William Martin

Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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The people who do the most extraordinary things in the world are never "realistic." They're passionate. They trust themselves.

Deepak Chopra

People, Passionate, World

"Get Inspired: Q&A with Deepak Chopra". Interview with Crystal Tate, www.womansday.com. December 11, 2009.

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Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

Mother Teresa

Ordinary Extraordinary, Ordinary Things, Changing The World

Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.325, Image

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Leadership isn’t the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It’s a process ordinary people use when they’re bringing forth the best from themselves and others. Liberate the leader in everyone, and extraordinary things happen.

James M. Kouzes

Men, People, Leader

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I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it. Doing it is the most extraordinary thing. Because it's like Shakespeare times 100 with singing. It's that satisfying - and that demanding.

Imelda Staunton

Thinking, Singing, Sondheim

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The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

Danny Boyle

India, Extraordinary

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The idea of difficulty animates us all the time. We don’t want man to be an angel; we want him to be a hero. That is to say, a man like us, but who does extraordinary things. He jumps, yes, but in spite of the law of gravity. And everything he does is always ‘in spite of.’

Etienne Decroux

Hero, Angel, Men

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When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

Madeleine L'Engle

Believe, Impossible, Kind

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When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.

Oprah Winfrey

People, Brotherhood, Ordinary

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We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight simply because we do not wish to be enslaved or exterminated.

Donald Woods Winnicott

Fighting, History, Wish

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Drop the idea of being Extraordinary! It's keeping you mediocre. To be Ordinary is the most extraordinary thing in the world. The Ordinary person has light in his eyes; he has become extraordinary but he has no idea of it.

Rajneesh

Eye, Light, Ideas

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One day you will wake up and there wont be any more time to do the things youve always wanted. Do it now. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Paulo Coelho

Wise, Simple, One Day

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In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You are aware of the beating of your heart. The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment.

Frederick Buechner

Heart, Names, Extraordinary Moments

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When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen.

Brian Houston

People, Ordinary, Praying

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Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.

Neil Gershenfeld

People, Giving, Design

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The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.

George Gershwin

Mother, Modest, Gershwin

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Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

Earl Weaver

Dull, Extraordinary

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Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.

Studs Terkel

Air, People, Ordinary

Studs Terkel, Sydney Lewis (2010). “Touch and Go: A Memoir (Large Print 16pt)”, p.244, ReadHowYouWant.com

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