Extraordinary Things Quotes - Page 2

• Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.

  Irena Sendler

  Inspirational Life, Hero, Normal

  "Irena Sendlerowa: Warsaw social worker who rescued thousands from the Jewish ghetto". Rupert Cornwell, The Independent, May 14, 2008.

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• It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

  Warren Buffett

  Motivational, Investing, Buffets

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• It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

  Peter Shaffer

  Strong, Tire, Bores

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• Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.

  Emily Carr

  Practice, Trying, Ordinary

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.58, D & M Publishers

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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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• Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

  Pope Francis

  Love, Faith, Christian

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• I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Ordinary, Committed, Persons

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• Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.

  William Martin

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• The people who do the most extraordinary things in the world are never "realistic." They're passionate. They trust themselves.

  Deepak Chopra

  People, Passionate, World

  "Get Inspired: Q&A with Deepak Chopra". Interview with Crystal Tate, www.womansday.com. December 11, 2009.

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• Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

  Mother Teresa

  Ordinary Extraordinary, Ordinary Things, Changing The World

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.325, Image

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• Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.

  Studs Terkel

  Air, People, Ordinary

  Studs Terkel, Sydney Lewis (2010). “Touch and Go: A Memoir (Large Print 16pt)”, p.244, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

  Earl Weaver

  Dull, Extraordinary

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• We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight simply because we do not wish to be enslaved or exterminated.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Fighting, History, Wish

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• Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.

  Eric Gill

  Art, People, Peculiar

  Eric Gill (1934). “Art and a Changing Civilisation”

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• The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.

  George Gershwin

  Mother, Modest, Gershwin

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• I'm sure you find it fascinating. It's always interesting for everybody to look at people who've been pushed to the brink. You wonder how you would fare with that. Nobody's interested in somebody who doesn't ever really do anything. I don't have a choice in that. I will always go for those kinds of characters. Each one is a separate choice for me, but I think it's fairly natural to find yourself gravitating towards people who have done extraordinary things.

  Christian Bale

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  "Christian Bale Pushes the Limits in Rescue Dawn". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. July 8, 2007.

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• The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

  Danny Boyle

  India, Extraordinary

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• Leadership isn’t the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It’s a process ordinary people use when they’re bringing forth the best from themselves and others. Liberate the leader in everyone, and extraordinary things happen.

  James M. Kouzes

  Men, People, Leader

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• One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wise, Simple, One Day

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• The idea of difficulty animates us all the time. We don’t want man to be an angel; we want him to be a hero. That is to say, a man like us, but who does extraordinary things. He jumps, yes, but in spite of the law of gravity. And everything he does is always ‘in spite of.’

  Etienne Decroux

  Hero, Angel, Men

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• In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You are aware of the beating of your heart. The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment.

  Frederick Buechner

  Heart, Names, Extraordinary Moments

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• When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Believe, Impossible, Kind

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• I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it. Doing it is the most extraordinary thing. Because it's like Shakespeare times 100 with singing. It's that satisfying - and that demanding.

  Imelda Staunton

  Thinking, Singing, Sondheim

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• Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.

  Neil Gershenfeld

  People, Giving, Design

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• When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.

  Oprah Winfrey

  People, Brotherhood, Ordinary

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