Ordinary People Quotes - Page 11

• I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.

  Mo Yan

  Writing, Feet, People

  "Chinese writer Mo Yan, known for bawdy, sprawling tales, wins Nobel literature prize". www.foxnews.com. October 11, 2012.

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• I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

  Walter Lord

  People, Ordinary, Looks

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• Apart from a commendable determination to discomfit Trump and members of his inner circle (select military figures excepted, at least for now), journalism remains pretty much what it was prior to November 8th of last year: personalities built up only to be torn down; fads and novelties discovered, celebrated, then mocked; "extraordinary" stories of ordinary people granted 15 seconds of fame only to once again be consigned to oblivion - all served with a side dish of that day's quota of suffering, devastation, and carnage. These remain journalism's stock-in-trade.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Determination, Military, People

  "Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, What Obsessing About You-Know-Who Causes Us To Miss". www.tomdispatch.com. May 7, 2017.

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• China after Olympics will progress very slowly. But the demands for freedom - on the part of ordinary people but also party members - won't be as easy to contain.

  Liu Xiaobo

  Party, People, Progress

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• And your brain doesn't naturally know how to think the way Zeckhauser knows how to play bridge. "for example," people do not react symmetrically to loss and gain. Well maybe a great bridge player like Zeckhauser does, but that's a trained response. Ordinary people, subconsciously affected by their inborn tendencies.

  Charlie Munger

  Loss, Player, Thinking

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• Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Hero, People, Ordinary

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• Smart people underestimate the ordinarity of ordinary people.

  Yukihiro Matsumoto

  Smart, People, Ordinary

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• The suspicion and antagonism of academics, clerics and intellectuals towards the market... go hand in hand with their disdain for the preference and habits of ordinary people.

  Peter Thomas Bauer

  Hands, People, Ordinary

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• Think always: I am ever-pure, ever-knowing, and ever-free. How can I do anything evil? Can I ever be befooled like ordinary people with the insignificant charms of lust and wealth? Strengthen the mind with such thoughts. This will surely bring real good.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Thinking, Knowing

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• A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Differences, People, Making A Difference

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• There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.

  Wendell Berry

  Powerful, People, Ordinary

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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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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• It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

  Ken Livingstone

  Art, People, Criticism

  "Art attack - mayor and sculptor in war of words over Mandela statue", www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2005.

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• One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big egos. In some cases, it's the only difference.

  Charles Atlas

  Artist, Differences, People

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• Successful people rely heavily on their mentors. Ordinary people don't. It's that simple.

  Robert G. Allen

  Successful, Simple, People

  Robert G. Allen (2010). “Multiple Streams of Internet Income: How Ordinary People Make Extraordinary Money Online”, John Wiley & Sons

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• I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar tissue on their eyes and got noses like saddles. I go to conventions of old fighters like me and I see the scar tissue and all them flat noses and it's beautiful. ... They talk like me, like they got rocks in their throats. Beautiful!

  Willie Pastrano

  Beautiful, Eye, Rocks

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• I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization.

  Walt Disney

  Teamwork, Pride, Organization

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• Some people can do one thing magnificently, like Michelangelo, and others make things like semiconductors or build 747 airplanes -- that type of work requires legions of people. In order to do things well, that can't be done by one person, you must find extraordinary people.

  Steve Jobs

  Airplane, Order, People

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• Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.

  Hermann Hesse

  People, Mind, Age

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• The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live, and the ordinary people are too terrified to protest.

  Robert Payne

  Men, Games, People

  "The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America". Book by Robert Payne, "A Vision of the Uncorrupted Society", p. 279, 1975.

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• Ordinary people can bring about change.

  Oprah Winfrey

  People, Ordinary

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• Superstition originates among ordinary people in the early and all too zealous instruction they receive in religion: they hear of mysteries, miracles, deeds of the Devil, and consider it very probable that things of this sort could occur in everything anywhere.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  People, Miracle, Devil

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• There aren't enough professionals to solve the world's problems. There will never be enough doctors to solve the health problems of the world. There will never be enough teachers to solve the education problems of the world - illiteracy. There will never be enough missionaries to care and comfort and share the Good News. It has to be done by normal, ordinary people.

  Rick Warren

  Teacher, Doctors, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Reading put perspective to any challenge I was facing and made me see that extraordinary people usually had extraordinary pain, difficulties or injustices. That's part of why they have the drive and hunger to do good in the world, to make something happen.

  Tony Robbins

  Pain, Reading, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Writing, People, Ordinary

  H. P. Lovecraft (2000). “The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature”, Hippocampus

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