Ordinary People Quotes - Page 16

• Is it not possible to look beyond the canes, the wheelchairs, the braces, and the crutches into the hearts of the people who have need of these aids? They are human beings and want only to be treated as ordinary people. They may appear different, move awkwardly, and speak haltingly, but they have the same feelings. ... They want to be loved for what they are inside, without any prejudice for their impairment. Can there not be more tolerance for differences-differences in capacity, differences in body and in mind?

  James E. Faust

  Moving, Inspiration, Heart

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• Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide

  Meg Ryan

  Change, Mother, Children

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• The ordinary people will consider it lack of simplicity to harmonize all the changes throughout ten thousand years. With a tired body and a frightened mind, they toil to avoid this and to take that. The sage alone has no prejudice. He therefore proceeds with utter simplicity and becomes one with transformation and always roams in the realm of unity.

  Guo Xiang

  Change, Tired, Years

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• Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, People, Achievement

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 28, 2013

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• One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Independent, Numbers, People

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• The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Race

  Brian Tracy (1998). “The Gift of Self-Confidence”, p.49, Jaico Publishing House

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• The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Work, People, Balance

  "21 Keys to Work/Life Balance: Unlock Your Full Potential". Book by Michael Thomas Sunnarborg, April 29, 2013.

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• What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.

  Paul Hawken

  Encouragement, Odds, Order

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• Those that God used in the past were just ordinary people with an extraordinary Master. They were not all champions of great faith, but little people who saw their own need, and put their small faith in a great God.

  Winkie Pratney

  Past, People, Champion

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• We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance.

  Nichiren

  Distance, Eyelashes, People

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• Flint has the potential to produce fire, and gems have intrinsic value. We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance. Likewise, we do not see that the Buddha exists in our own hearts.

  Nichiren

  Distance, Heart, Eyelashes

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• Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people.

  Lyn Gardner

  Real, People, Theatre

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• Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.

  Michael Gerber

  People, Ordinary, Achieve

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• True fighters dare face the sorrows of humanity, and look unflinchingly at bloodshed. What sorrow and joy are theirs! But the Creator's common device for ordinary people is to let the passage of time wash away old traces leaving only pale-red bloodstains and a vague pain; and he lets men live on ignobly and amid these, to keep this quasi-human world going.

  Lu Xun

  Pain, Men, People

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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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• Hillary Clinton is now in Iowa. She's spending every waking minute of her day meeting ordinary people, and it's to prepare her for a job in which she will never again meet an ordinary person.

  David Letterman

  Jobs, Iowa, People

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• The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they value their own lives. When the last of the veterans had gone, and the sorrows and bitterness which the war created had at last worn away, this memory remained.

  Bruce Catton

  Memories, War, People

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• The American people are not uniquely, but characteristically the most spontaneously generous in the world and you're seeing that all over this country in Web sites of charitable organizations that are crashing because of the overwhelming desire on the part of ordinary people to help out.

  Richard Norton Smith

  Country, Organization, Overwhelming Desire

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• Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't think art is elite or mysterious.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• David Halberstam often wrote about the powerful, but his real sympathies lay with ordinary people. He was very uncomfortable with bigfoot Washington journalism - he thought it was lazy and self-serving.

  Jonathan Yardley

  Powerful, Real, Self

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Im drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. Im not saying I dont love films about super-people or super-doctors, but my preference is for stories about how we get through this life, what it is to be human, because Im always struggling with it myself.

  Sophie Okonedo

  Struggle, Doctors, Ideas

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• The study of foodways - the intersection of food and culture - addresses a central issue in the humanities: how we connect the great dramas of history with the lives of ordinary people.

  Marcie Cohen Ferris

  Drama, People, Humanity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Law, Ordinary Extraordinary, People

  1866 Crime and Punishment, pt.3, ch.5 (translated by David Magarshak).

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• The majority falls prey to the delusion–popular in some circles–that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth–born of experience–is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.

  Alex Kozinski

  Stupid, Fall, Gun

  "The Individual’s Right to Bear Arms". capitalismmagazine.com. May 22, 2003.

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• A worldview is not the same things a formal philosophy, otherwise it would only be for philosophers. Even ordinary people have a set of convictions about how reality functions and how they should live. Some convictions are conscious while others are unconscious but together they form a consistent picture of reality.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Philosophy, Reality, People

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