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• If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary and eternal life force that surges and ebbs around us all the time? Apparently not. Because we have stopped paying attention.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Powerful, House, Needs

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “The Last American Man”, p.13, A&C Black

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• Listen to your child enough and you will come to realize that he or she is quite an extraordinary individual. And the more extraordinary you realize your child to be the more you will be willing to listen. And the more you will learn.

  M. Scott Peck

  Children, Realizing, Enough

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Heroism is an extraordinary feat of the flesh; holiness is an ordinary act of the spirit. One may bring personal glory; the other always gives God glory.

  Charles Colson

  Giving, Heroism, Ordinary

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.135, Zondervan

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• Some people hate the very name of statistics, but I find them full of beauty and interest. Whenever they are not brutalized, but delicately handled by the higher methods, and are warily interpreted, their power of dealing with complicated phenomena is extraordinary. They are the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.

  Francis Galton

  Hate, Cutting, Men

  Natural Inheritance Normal Variability (pp. 62-3)

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• There are no great men, only ordinary men, who have met extraordinary challenges.

  William Halsey

  Men, Challenges, Ordinary

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  In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things.  Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.

  Jim Valvano

  People, Ordinary, Accomplish

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• It's quite extraordinary that a recourse (branding/identity) which is generally regarded as so significant, and is now so ubiquitous, is so little understood.

  Wally Olins

  Identity, Littles, Significant

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• Peter Sarsgaard, he's an extraordinary actor, and I would say that Peter has really brought into my life and my sister's life a sense of presence as an actor that I never really understood or knew about until I met him. They've been together for a very long time, and he introduced me to the idea of the presentation.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Ideas, Long, Together

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• A Separation is another film that I think is extraordinary, and one of those things that feels like it's from another planet, much like Terrence Malick's movies did: at a certain point, you feel like he's an alien from another planet telling us and looking at us and showing us how we are. I also really, really love Jerry McGuire.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Aliens, Separation

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• When you consciously choose to be ordinary, you become extraordinary.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Ordinary

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• We idealize the transformative life into a life of power, of extraordinary experience, of deep realization. It is none of these things; rather it is a life that is without a trace, a life as it actually is, which is without me.

  Steven Harrison

  Realization, Without A Trace

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• The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.

  Seth Godin

  Ordinary, Firsts, Becoming

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• Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Mean, Events, Ordinary

  Leonard Mlodinow (2008). “The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives”, p.12, Vintage

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• Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.

  Studs Terkel

  People, Ordinary, Capable

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• When all the mysticism is stripped away, the people who comprise the government (the legislators, administrators, judges, and policemen), are guided by human interests, desires, beliefs, notions, and prejudices, just like other people. They have neither superhuman wisdom nor extraordinary virtue.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Government, People, Judging

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• You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.

  Justin Trudeau

  Running, Government, Gathering

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• The extraordinary thing about the record industry is how success can take off without warning.

  Richard Branson

  Records, Warning, Extraordinary Things

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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• I don't have an extraordinary degree of self-confidence, but I know the gift I have been given from God and I try to share it with as many people as possible. Having a great voice is not a merit. I don't think it is a merit.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Self Confidence, Thinking, Voice

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• We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. For the most part, we use only a fraction of these powers, and some not at all.

  Ken Robinson

  Imagination, Feelings, Intuition

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.15, Penguin

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• My first breath was just...it just seemed impossible that you could actually breathe underwater. I knew in my mind it was possible, but actually experiencing it was such a gulp of joy and I feel it every time I go under the ocean. I love doing it, to be able to feel weightless, to spin on one finger, to do somersaults, to be like a graceful ballerina - even with a huge tank on your back you can do the most extraordinary things.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Joy, Mind

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• Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Suffering, World, Kind

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “De Profundis: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.33, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think happiness is a choice. I believe luck is your attitude. It sounds like a really annoying bumper sticker. But there is such a great truth in that. You choose how you want to feel about what happens to you. I could have been a miserable failure. I haven't had anybody looking over me, and I've found my own way through optimistic exploration and fire-burning mistakes. I am a very happy person with an extraordinary life, so I must be doing a lot of things right. I really believe when you peel away the layers, the worlds is a beautiful place filled with beautiful people.

  Drew Barrymore

  Beautiful, Attitude, Mistake

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• By consciously deciding how you will live the rest of your life, you can create a life that is extraordinary.

  Robin Harris

  Rest Of Your Life

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• Mandela has played a crucial part in history. He's done some extraordinary things, not only for his country but also for the whole world.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Country, Done, World

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• If you want to do something extraordinary, there's always risk involved. I was always willing to take that risk.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Risk, Want, Willing

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