Extraordinary Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• 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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• Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people.

  Andy Andrews

  Average, People, Ordinary People

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• The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

  Graham Swift

  Art, Clever, Real

  "Triumph of the common man" by John O'Mahony, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2003.

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• Life and business is like the changing seasons. You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself. Therein lies the opportunity to live an extraordinary life, the opportunity to change yourself.

  Jim Rohn

  Lying, Opportunity, Change Yourself

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 27, 2013

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• What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

  Carl Sagan

  Believe, Two, Sound

  "Cosmos/ Encyclopaedia Galactica". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mother, Powerful, Years

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• I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.

  Alice Waters

  Summer, Childhood, Tomatoes

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• The exertions that men find it necessary to make, in order to support themselves or families, frequently awaken faculties that might otherwise have lain for ever dormant, and it has been commonly remarked that new and extraordinary situations generally create minds adequate to grapple with the difficulties in which they are involved.

  Thomas Malthus

  Men, Order, Support

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.167, Penguin UK

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• May your boulders be your blessings. May you be able to embrace them. And may you find what's extraordinary in yourself.

  Aron Ralston

  Blessing, Boulders, May

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• The experience of being in between-between the time we leave home and arrive at our destination; between the time we leave adolescence and arrive at adulthood; between the time we leave doubt and arrive at faith. It is like the time when a trapeze artist lets go the bars and hangs in midair, ready to catch another support: it is a time of danger, of expectation, of uncertainty, of excitement, or extraordinary aliveness.

  Paul Tournier

  Letting Go, Home, Artist

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• Achievement does not require extraordinary ability. Achievement comes from ordinary abilities applied with extraordinary persistence.

  Ralph Marston

  Persistence, Achievement, Ordinary

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• Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that something extraordinary happened at the moment in time that counts for us as today. This is the case even though a hundred million years from now, all that we consider to be the great works of man—the sculptures and the libraries, the monuments and the museums, the cities and the factories—will be compressed into a layer of sediment not much thicker than a cigarette paper.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Distance, Men, Museums

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.64, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Art in its execution and direction is dependent on the time in which it lives, and artists are creatures of their epoch. The highest art will be that which in its conscious content presents the thousandfold problems of the day, the art which has been visibly shattered by the explosions of last week The best and most extraordinary artists will be those who every hour snatch the tatters of their bodies out of the frenzied cataract of life, who, with bleeding hands and hearts, hold fast to the intelligence of their time.

  Richard Huelsenbeck

  Art, Hands, Body

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• An extraordinary writer....It is the vastness of Nick Tosches’ heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Heart, Darkness, Vastness

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• Being alive is so extraordinary I don’t know why people limit it to riches, pride, security—all of those things life is built on. People miss so much because they want money and comfort and pride, a house and a job to pay for the house. And they have to get a car. You can’t see anything from a car. It’s moving too fast. People take vacations. That’s their reward—the vacation. Why not the life?

  Jack Gilbert

  Jobs, Moving, Pride

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• My Heart and Other Black Holes is alive with intensity, gut-wrenching honesty, moments of humor, and -- of course -- heart. This is an extraordinary debut by a striking new voice in YA fiction that left me in awe and moved beyond measure. Not to be missed.

  Nova Ren Suma

  Honesty, Heart, Voice

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• Ayrton Senna was an extraordinary racing driver. His skills, craft, subtlety and courage were of such magnitude that he dwarfed his generation of drivers.

  Ron Dennis

  Skills, Racing, Generations

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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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• New Self, New World is an extraordinary work—an awesome display of wisdom distilled from the world’s great wisdom traditions and the majestic individuals who have experienced them. This book is about achieving the highest dimensions of which humans are capable. Highly recommended.

  Larry Dossey

  Book, Self, World

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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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• But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content with being mediocre; they'll do everything in their power to prevent even the humblest of teachers and children from accomplishing anything extraordinary. For good work shines a light on the failures of the mediocre, and that is a light which terrifies those who conspire to keep our nation's children, like themselves, ordinary.

  Rafe Esquith

  Teacher, Children, Ignorance

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• We can reproduce within our own minds the way that the world is put together for other people. This is the extraordinary privilege and adventure of anthropology.

  Marshall Sahlins

  Adventure, People, Mind

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• The more I trust my intuition and act on its wisdom, the more extraordinary my life becomes.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Intuition

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