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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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• Every night before I go to sleep I say out loud three things that I am grateful for, all the significant, insignificant, extraordinary, ordinary stuff of my life. It is s small practice and humble, and yet, I find I sleep better holding what lightens and softens my life every so briefly at the end of the day.

  Carrie Newcomer

  Grateful, Humble, Sleep

  "A Permeable Life: Poetry and Essays". Book by Carrie Newcomer, onbeing.org. March 17, 2014.

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• When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen.

  Brian Houston

  People, Ordinary, Praying

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• David Corbett has combined his unique talents as a gifted writer and an extraordinary teacher to create a superb resource on character development. Deftly crafted and impeccably researched, The Art of Character is a thoughtful and insightful book that is immensely readable and practical.

  Sheldon Siegel

  Teacher, Art, Book

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• He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary gifts.

  Murray Leinster

  World, Talent, Lost

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• Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s out there somewhere. Waiting, maybe. Mixing fear with desire, reputation with regret. Touching the blood-beat of our secret hunger with the rhythms of a music that never felt alien till now. Wasted lives, with never a wasted word. It’s an extraordinary achievement: vivid as neon, real as rain. Devastating.

  Chaz Brenchley

  Regret, Real, Rain

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• One always imagines that the days that change one’s life must be marked with something extraordinary in nature—storms and lightning, darkness at noon, and so on. In truth they are indistinguishable from any other, which is one reason we feel mocked, as if the world is telling us we are inconsequential.

  Margaret George

  Life, Darkness, Storm

  Margaret George (2011). “Elizabeth I: The Novel”, p.452, Penguin

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• There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for a world where orphans are not poor and buildings comply with decent fire codes.

  Randy Cohen

  Lying, Fire, Burning

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• Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.

  Alan Keith

  Leadership, Creating, People

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• Film is such an extraordinary rich medium which can handle so many different modes of operation, combining together in the same place all these extraordinary disciplines which may be executed in their own right - music, writing, picture making of all kinds, and I often feel that some filmmakers make films with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs.

  Peter Greenaway

  Writing, Eye, Hands

  Interview in Art and Design, no. 49,

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• Our perspective is what holds the key to whether the solution is ordinary or extraordinary.

  Dewitt Jones

  Keys, Perspective, Ordinary

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• Dream the dream, find that extraordinary vision, and keep it in focus.

  Dewitt Jones

  Dream, Focus, Vision

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• If we want TRULY EXTRAORDINARY VISION then you have to continually expand your horizons, take risks.  If we don’t push our edge we’ll never expand our view.. It’s not trespassing to go beyond your own boundaries.

  Dewitt Jones

  Views, Risk, Vision

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• Creativity is the ability to look at the ordinary and see the extraordinary.

  Dewitt Jones

  Creativity, Ordinary, Looks

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• Photography is an art of observation - it's about creating something extraordinary out of the ordinary. You choose a frame and then wait until the right time for something magical to come along and fill it.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Art, Creating

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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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• Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former-the youngest or despised child who becomes the master of extraordinary powers-prevails over his personal oppressors, the latter brings back from his adventure the means for the regeneration of his society as a whole.

  Joseph Campbell

  Children, Hero, Adventure

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• The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Determination, Successful, Differences

  Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial

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• Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Imagination, Culture

  "TED and Reddit asked Sir Ken Robinson anything — and he answered". TED and Reddit Interview, blog.ted.com. August 12, 2009.

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• Expressing thankfulness in advance is the way of all Masters. So do not wait for a thing to happen and then give thanks. Give thanks before it happens, and watch energies swirl! To thank God before something occurs is an act of extraordinary faith. And that, of course, is where the power comes from.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Giving, Waiting, Thank God

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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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• We are a church of sinners but we must not be afraid of holiness. Do not be afraid to aim for holiness and turn yourselves over to the love of God. Holiness does not mean performing extraordinary things but carrying out daily things in an extraordinary way that is with love, joy and faith.

  Pope Francis

  Mean, Joy, Church

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• Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

  Marcus du Sautoy

  Romance, World, Boring

  "A prime example" by Karen Gold, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2006.

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• We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

  Dave Eggers

  Would Be, Absurd, Extraordinary Things

  "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius". Book by Dave Eggers, 2000.

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• Nothing extraordinary is achieved through ordinary means.

  Scott Belsky

  Mean, Ordinary

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