Ordinary Quotes - Page 28

• I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.

  Jake Epstein

  Falling In Love, Teenager, I Fall In Love

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• Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

  Mark Haddon

  Perspective, Extraordinary

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• If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical manoeuvre. If a writer is silent, he is lying.

  Jaroslav Seifert

  Lying, May, Silent

  "Nhetembo".

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• We tried to present the ordinary in an extraordinary manner. But that's the paradox because the only thing extraordinary about it was that it was so ordinary. Nobody had ever done it before, deliberately. Now it's called documentary, which I suppose is all right ... We just took pictures that cried out to be taken.

  Ben Shahn

  Taken, Done, Documentaries

  Ben Shahn (1972). “Ben Shahn”

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• I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope it will serve to remind us that history's deepest tragedies concern not the great protagonists who set events in motion but the countless ordinary people who are caught up in those events and torn apart by their remorseless fury. I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Memories, Collective Memory

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• Once you have found yourself and accepted your aloneness, then the greatest blessing is to share the love that arises within you. Each new moment presents the richest opportunity to be loving. And you can share love in the simplest of ways. Be soft and gentle. Be caring and kind. Be loving in an ordinary way, without any sense of wanting anything back, Life offers you the most precious gift. The gift of allowing you to be present and share love.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Love, Caring, Blessing

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• It's not the length but the quality of life that matters to me. It has always been important to me to write one sentence at a time, to live every day as if it were my last and judge it in those terms, often badly, not because it lacked grand gesture or grand passion but because it failed in the daily virtues of self-discipline, kindness, and laughter. It is love, very ordinary, human love, and not fear, which is the good teacher and the wisest judge.

  Jane Rule

  Love, Teacher, Kindness

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• Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

  Huston Smith

  Plato, Reflection, Caves

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• Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary.

  Pema Chodron

  Appreciate, Birth

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• For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new.

  Alexander Fleming

  Fall, Science, Fog

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• Creativity is not simply originality and unlimited freedom. There is much more to it than that. Creativity also imposes restrictions. While it uses methods other than those of ordinary thinking, it must not be in disagreement with ordinary thinking-or rather, it must be something that, sooner or later, ordinary thinking will understand, accept, and appreciate. Otherwise the result would be bizarre, not creative.

  Silvano Arieti

  Art, Creativity, Thinking

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• I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am myself the matter of my book.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fashion, Book, Simple

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.2, Stanford University Press

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• These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest; much less to treat them with mere indifference and contempt. If not true they are little else than the pretensions of a bold imposture, which not satisfied with having already enslaved millions of the human race, seeks to continue its encroachments upon human liberty, until all nations be subjected under its iron rule.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Iron, Race, Liberty

  Simon Greenleaf (1995). “The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence”, p.10, Kregel Publications

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• Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Meaningful, Expression, Language

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• This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism

  Joseph Stalin

  War, People, Yoke

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• It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

  Kenneth Koch

  Journey, Perception, Strange

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• While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Men, Light

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• The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change our preception, our description, our consciousness of where we are.

  Starhawk

  Mystery, Consciousness, Description

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• Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Math, Language, Algebra

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men.

  William Wordsworth

  Men, Choices, Phrases

  'Resolution and Independence' (1807) st. 14

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• Play the open variation of the Ruy is my advice to all ordinary club players, and I recently even wrote a book about it, seen from Black's point of view. Why does everybody try to copy the grandmasters' strange positional maneuvers in the 5. ... B-K2 variation, instead of fighting for the in intiative?

  Bent Larsen

  Book, Fighting, Player

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• When you are so full that there is no emptiness in you, that you have started feeling the significance of the ordinary, day-to-day existence, when moment to moment you live totally, intensely, passionately, then God is available.

  Rajneesh

  Ordinary Days, Feelings, Emptiness

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• Find a perspective that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

  Dewitt Jones

  Perspective, Celebration, Extraordinary

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• All errors are just ordinary, what extraordinary sin can you commit? All the sins have been committed already. You cannot find a new sin - it is very difficult, it is almost impossible to be original about sin. For millions of years people have committed everything that can be committed. To be thrown in hell for your sins. Now this is too much! you can throw a man into hell for five years, ten years, twenty years, fifty years. If a man has lived for seventy years you can throw him there for seventy years.and that is if you only believe in one life. It is good that they believe in one life.

  Rajneesh

  Believe, Men, Errors

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• In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Past, Fiction Novels, Space

  " Tourist finds 'paradise' in space", www.cnn.com. May 6, 2001.

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