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• An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

  Susan Orlean

  Ordinary, Heroic, Complicated

  Susan Orlean (2010). “The Bullfighter Checks Her Make-Up”, p.13, Random House

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• Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

  Albert Camus

  Love Is, Vanity, Two

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.57, Vintage

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• One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Teacher, Years

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• Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common
  to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

  John McCain

  Leadership, Honesty, Integrity

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• Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Basketball, Business, Men

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• Writing isn't generally a lucrative source of income; only a few, exceptional writers reach the income levels associated with the best-sellers. Rather, most of us write because we can make a modest living, or even supplement our day jobs, doing something about which we feel passionately. Even at the worst of times, when nothing goes right, when the prose is clumsy and the ideas feel stale, at least we're doing something that we genuinely love. There's no other reason to work this hard, except that love.

  Melissa Scott

  Jobs, Writing, Ideas

  Melissa Scott (1997). “Conceiving the Heavens: Creating the Science Fiction Novel”, Heinemann Drama

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• He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Beautiful, Believe

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.

  Bertrand Russell

  Leadership, Girl, Teacher

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Why Men Fight”, p.106, Routledge

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• An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands.

  John Wooden

  Exception To The Rule, Leader, Demand

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• When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on.  Behind him he has all the decisions he has made in life. Each time, he has chosen, and in what he is onstage, you see the result of those choices.  You are looking at the person he is, and the person who, at this point, he cannot help but be  Exceptional dancers, in my experience, are also exceptional people, people with an attitude toward life, a kind of quest, and an internal quality.  They know who they are, and they show this to you, willingly.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Attitude, People, Choices

  "Loners". www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2005.

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• Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us. While each of these experiences can isolate those who are affected, together they compose an aggregate of millions whose struggles connect them profoundly. The exceptional is ubiquitous; to be entirely typical is the rare and lonely state.

  Andrew Solomon

  Lonely, Struggle, Differences

  Andrew Solomon (2012). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.

  Samuel Mockbee

  Inspiration, Everyday, Architecture

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• Be exceptional. Make tremendous efforts to be extraordinary. What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Just make sure you do so.

  Shelby Lynne

  Unique, Effort, Privilege

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• She wondered then if she had ever been on the right track. She had been reticent all her life, because it turned out that her opinions were different from what others expected. 'That proves either that I am an exceptional idiot, or the reverse.

  Nuruddin Farah

  Track, Different, Opinion

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• The average are addicted to leisure. The exceptional are obsessed with learning.

  Robin Sharma

  Average, Leisure, Obsessed

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• Want a good body? Work at it. Want to be a success? Work at it. Want to be truly exceptional? Be a touch insane... You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

  Henry Rollins

  Insanity, Insane, Body

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

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• We have the idea that God is going to do some exceptional thing- that He is preparing and equipping us for some extraordinary work in the future. But as we grow in His grace we find that God is glorifying Himself here and now, at this very moment. If we have God’s assurance behind us, the most amazing strength becomes ours, and we learn to sing, glorifying Him even in the ordinary days and ways of life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Ordinary Days, Ideas, Grace

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.49, Discovery House

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• It is only in exceptional moods that we realize how wonderful are the commonest experiences of life. It seems to me sometimes that these experiences have an "inner" side, as well as the outer side we normally perceive. At such moments one suddenly sees everything with new eyes; one feels on the brink of some great revelation. It is as if we caught a glimpse of some incredibly beautiful world that lies silently about us all the time.

  J. W. N. Sullivan

  Life, Beautiful, Lying

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• Holiness is not reserved for a small number of exceptional persons. It is for everyone. It is the Lord who brings us to holiness when we are willing to collaborate in the salvation of the world for the glory of God, despite our sin and our sometimes rebellious temperament.

  Pope John Paul II

  Small Numbers, World, Holiness

  Pope John Paul II (2012). “A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World”, p.261, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so. Don't condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that.

  Dale Carnegie

  Wise, Thinking, People

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.142, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• I don't want to play a superhero. Drogo may not be Superman, but it is a phenomenal role. I didn't want to get typecast. Drogo is an exceptional character. Conan is iconic. Whether it does good or not, you just try to elevate it to the next level.

  Jason Momoa

  Character, Play, Superhero

  Source: collider.com

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• Messi's like a PlayStation. He can take advantage of every mistake we make. He made the impossible possible. He has something exceptional. He has six or seven years in front of him, touchwood that nothing happens to him, and he can reach unbelievable levels.

  Arsene Wenger

  Mistake, Years, Messi

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• Here, in the Land of Israel, we returned and built a nation. Here, in the Land of Israel, we established a State. The Land of the prophets, which bequeathed to the world the values of morality, law and justice, was after two thousand years, restored to its lawful owner - the members of the Jewish People, On its Land, we have built an exceptional national Home and State.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Home, Israel, Years

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• I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

  Geoffrey Boycott

  Ambition, Men, People

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• It's a special place, and I believe in the prominence of America, and having America be and continue to be an exceptional place, and making no apologies for America being a superpower.

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

  Believe, Apology, America

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