Ordinary Quotes - Page 31

• There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it.

  Larry Dossey

  Sight, Treasure, Want

  Larry Dossey (2007). “The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness”, p.1, Harmony

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• There are no ordinary lives.

  Ken Burns

  Ordinary Life

  "Ken Burns On “The Worst War Ever". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. August 24, 2007.

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• Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.

  Andrew Motion

  Honor

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• Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.

  Billy Idol

  Art, Rocks, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've done more than 10,000 interviews, and I've learnt that you've got to do your homework. I bury myself in research beforehand. And you have to be genuinely interested in people; there's a cornucopia of great, ordinary people out there with wonderful, colourful stories.

  Ray Martin

  Communication, Media, People

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• You've got to involve yourself in doing something for other people all the time. I know that sounds sentimental, but you see, ordinary people are the most generous people on Earth without question. And what I think we should do is constantly try to give as much of ourselves as we can to each other - that's the secret of happiness for all of us.

  Peter Cundall

  Thinking, Giving, People

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• The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness of their dreams, the desperate vitality of their ambitions, that they stand apart from ordinary people of good will.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Dream, Ambition, People

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• Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the laws of intellect which is madness in the ordinary man, genius in the Overman who hath arrived to strike off more fetters from our understanding.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Law, Ideas

  Aleister Crowley (1970). “777 revised: vel, Prolegomena symbolica ad systemam sceptico-mysticae viae explicandae, fundamentum hieroglyphicum sanctissimorum scientiae summae”, Weiser Books

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• Tea ceremony is a way of worshipping the beautiful and the simple. All one's efforts are concentrated on trying to achieve perfection through the imperfect gestures of daily life. Its beauty consists in the respect with which it is performed. If a mere cup of tea can bring us closer to God, we should watch out for all the other dozens of opportunities that each ordinary day offers us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Simple

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• We must learn to live in the ordinary 'gray' day according to what we saw on the mountain.

  Oswald Chambers

  Mountain, Saws, Gray Days

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.232, Discovery House

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• The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well.

  Alan Keyes

  Opportunity, People, Judging

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• Your path is your own, but you must walk side by side with others, with compassion and generosity as your beacons. If anything is required it is this: fearlessness in your examination of life and death; Willingness to continually grow; and openness to the possibility that the ordinary is extraordinary, and that your joys and your sorrows have meaning and mystery

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Compassion, Generosity, Life And Death

  Elizabeth Lesser (1999). “The New American Spirituality: A Seeker's Guide”, Random House Incorporated

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• The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.

  Vincent Cassel

  Art, Ideas, Challenges

  "It shows us the animal inside us" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2003.

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• What you dismiss as an ordinary coincidence may be an opening to an extraordinary adventure.

  Deepak Chopra

  Adventure, May, Coincidence

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• The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.

  Oswald Chambers

  Religious, Attitude, Character

  Oswald Chambers (1985). “My Utmost for His Highest”

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• God never intended His people to be ordinary or commonplace. His intentions were that they should be on fire for Him, conscious of His divine power, realizing the glory of the cross that foreshadows the crown.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Fire, People, Crowns

  Smith Wigglesworth (2013). “Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Divine Nature: Abiding in Power Every Day of the Year”, p.15, Destiny Image Publishers

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• The teacher's task is not a small easy one! She has to prepare a huge amount of knowledge to satisfy the child's mental hunger. She is not like the ordinary teacher, limited by a syllabus. The needs of the child are clearly more difficult to answer.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, Tasks

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• Our ordinary abilities will never worship God unless they are transformed by the indwelling Son of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Son, Worship, Ability

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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• I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters.

  Maeve Binchy

  Character, Loss, Perhaps Love

  FaceBook post by Maeve Binchy from Feb 07, 2012

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• The extraordinary lies in the path of ordinary people.

  Paulo Coelho

  Lying, People, Path

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 05, 2014

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• Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Giving Up, Hero, People

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• Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hero, Men

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• When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.

  Cornel West

  People, Wake Up, Boots

  Twitter post from May 27, 2010

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• The Lord has a great work for each of us to do. You may wonder how this can be. You may feel that there is nothing special or superior about you or your ability. ... The Lord can do remarkable miracles with a person of ordinary ability who is humble, faithful, and diligent in serving the Lord and seeks to improve himself. This is because God is the ultimate source of power.

  James E. Faust

  Humble, Miracle, Faithful

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• Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Different, Levels, Spirituality

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