Extraordinary Quotes

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  Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Strength, Strong

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• Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

  Robertson Davies

  Courage, Adversity, Ordinary Extraordinary

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.166, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

  Uta Hagen

  Life, Self Esteem, Women

  Uta Hagen (2009). “Respect for Acting”, p.29, John Wiley & Sons

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• Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Mother, Thinking

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.22, New World Library

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• We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

  Helen Hayes

  Sports, Hero, News

  Helen Hayes, Marion Glasserow Gladney (1986). “Our Best Years”, Doubleday Books

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• The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

  Jimmy Johnson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Fictional character: Dan". "Waiting...", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

  Jean Houston

  Motivation, Healing, Waiting

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• I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Leader, Ordinary

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

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• One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  A Thousand and One Epigrams (1911)

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• She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Simple, Ordinary Extraordinary, People

  "The Lucky One". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 2008.

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• When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Leadership, Opportunity, Men

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• Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Artist, Agency, Creative

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• Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

  Erma Bombeck

  Dog, Two, Age

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• I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.

  Debbie Harry

  New Year, Years, Lovely

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• You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

  Judy Holliday

  Smart, Play, Dumb

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• I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.

  Ben Kingsley

  Destiny, Thinking, Stories

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• An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Arrogance, Firsts, Claims

  "A Theory of Roughness". Interview with John Brockman, www.edge.org. December 20, 2004.

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• Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

  Boris Pasternak

  Art, People, Ordinary

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• I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

  Carl Sagan

  Believe, Science, Claims

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.73, Ballantine Books

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• It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

  George Will

  Wise, Positive Thinking, Ordinary

  George F. Will (1983). “The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions”, Touchstone

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• Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

  Claudia Christian

  Spontaneity, Spontaneous, Applause

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• The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Love, Christian, Ordinary

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Emma Elizabeth Brown (1879). “Thoughts that breathe”

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• Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

  Clifford Geertz

  Intellectual, Literature, Fields

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• America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Country, America, Promise

  Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1968). “Unity, Freedom & Peace: A Blueprint for Tomorrow”

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• It is extraordinary to have time to again study Le nozze di Figaro and discover new things.

  Riccardo Muti

  Study, New Things

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