Ordinariness Quotes

• It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Rebel, Obscurity, Human Nature

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• The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

  Ronald Blythe

  Appreciate, Appreciate Life, Novel

  Ronald Blythe (1979). “The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age”, p.13, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer and football-loving commitments.

  Peter York

  Football, Stress, Commitment

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• Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness and, well, untruthfulness of our lives, it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth. Nothing unknown is knowable.

  Tony Kushner

  Depressing, Thinking, Imagination

  "Angels in America". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.

  Trent Parke

  Photography, Light, Forever

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• For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world.

  Brad Meltzer

  Ideas, Superhero, World

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• Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

  Ursus Wehrli

  Long, Simplicity, Decision

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

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Ordinary, Extraordinary

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• God doesn’t care what you’re not. He cares who you are. You are His, you come from the Master, and when He adds His extra to your ordinary and His super to your natural, nothing is impossible for you.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 02, 2016

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• Refuse to be average.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Inspirational, Average, Editors

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• I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Children, Women

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.

  Lady Gaga

  Musician, Typical, Mediocrity

  Song: The Fame Monster, Album: The Fame, 2008

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• It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd

  Robin Crow

  Motivational, Simple, Excellence

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• Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Flower, Mediocrity, Way

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• I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not.

  Mason Cooley

  Want, Ordinary, Understood

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• Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• Maybe we all just want to feel special, even for a little while, to be fooled for a bit into feeling something besides the truth of our own ordinariness.

  Deb Caletti

  Feelings, Special, Want

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.321, Simon and Schuster

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• We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.

  Richard Dawkins

  Lucky, Sahara, Evolution

  Unweaving the Rainbow ch. 1 (1998)

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• There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways.

  Richard Dawkins

  Effort, World, Way

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• When you're being truly creative, time stands still, and you enter a dimension that can carry you beyond the ordinariness of everyday life.

  Denise Linn

  Creative, Everyday, Dimensions

  Denise Linn (2010). “Unlock the Secret Messages of Your Body!: The 28-Day Jump-Start Program for Radiant Health and Glorious Vitality”, p.164, Hay House, Inc

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• When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us.

  Algernon Blackwood

  Imagination, Darkness, Suggestions

  Algernon Blackwood (2008). “Three Supernatural Classics: The Willows, the Wendigo and the Listener”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• I thought if only I had a keen, shapely bone structure to my face or could discuss politics shrewdly or was a famous writer Constantin might find me interesting enough to sleep with. And then I wondered if as soon as he came to like me he would sink into ordinariness, and if as soon as he came to love me I would find fault, the way I did with Buddy Willard and the boys before him.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sleep, Boys, Interesting

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.44, Hamilton Books

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• Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.

  Henri Nouwen

  Thinking, Talking, Truth Revealed

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• When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice.

  Anne Michaels

  Gratitude, Sweet, Book

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