Ordinary People Quotes - Page 17

• Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Book, Mean

  Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.60, Hamilton Books

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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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• True fighters dare face the sorrows of humanity, and look unflinchingly at bloodshed. What sorrow and joy are theirs! But the Creator's common device for ordinary people is to let the passage of time wash away old traces leaving only pale-red bloodstains and a vague pain; and he lets men live on ignobly and amid these, to keep this quasi-human world going.

  Lu Xun

  Pain, Men, People

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• Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.

  Michael Gerber

  People, Ordinary, Achieve

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• A worldview is not the same things a formal philosophy, otherwise it would only be for philosophers. Even ordinary people have a set of convictions about how reality functions and how they should live. Some convictions are conscious while others are unconscious but together they form a consistent picture of reality.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Philosophy, Reality, People

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• History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Race, People

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• If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning around in a circle of insignificant interests and insignificant aims, if he could understand what they are losing, he would understand that there can only be one thing that is serious for him - to escape from the general law, to be free. What can be serious for a man in prison who is condemned to death? Only one thing: How to save himself, how to escape: nothing else is serious.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Men, Law, Circles

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• I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

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• Acting, in general, is something most people think they're incapable of, but they do it from morning to night. The subtlest acting I've ever seen is by ordinary people trying to show they feel something they don't, or trying to hide something. It's something everyone learns at an early age.

  Marlon Brando

  Morning, Night, Thinking

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• A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the ordinary people and what notes are to a musician.

  Garry Kasparov

  Mother, People, Musician

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• At (UNHCR's) headquarters, I met extraordinary people, men and women, especially from the emergency team, who shared with me their passion, their dedication and their commitment to this organisation and refugees. They told me about the daily difficulties they have to face and also the joy they felt when they managed to save a person whose life was threatened.

  Julien Clerc

  Team, Passion, Commitment

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• Thus, on this World Refugee Day, let us take time to recognize and draw inspiration from these ordinary people who have shown such extraordinary courage - the world's millions of refugees and displaced.

  Antonio Guterres

  Inspiration, People, Ordinary

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• The hours that ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage.

  Robin Sharma

  Powerful, People, Ordinary

  Twitter post from Sep 07, 2016

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• All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.

  Oswald Chambers

  People, Ordinary, Purpose

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.616, Discovery House

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• I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.

  Michael Frayn

  People, Interesting, Ordinary

  Michael Frayn (2015). “The Russian Interpreter”, p.43, Faber & Faber

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• When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen.

  Brian Houston

  People, Ordinary, Praying

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• I wanted to show that women could run, but I also wanted to kind of inspire the idea that ordinary people can run. I was like, boy, I feel so good when I run, if everybody could feel like this, this sense of joy and physical well-being and strength and autonomy you have when you run, how much better the world would be, you know?

  Bobbi Gibb

  Running, Boys, Ideas

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• Valentine's Day is devoted to love. Why don't we have a day devoted to hatred? The raw, visceral hatred that is felt every hour of the day by ordinary people, but is repressed for reasons of social order. I think it would be very cathartic, and it would certainly make for an exciting six o'clock news.

  George Carlin

  Valentine, Thinking, Order

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people.

  Andy Andrews

  Average, People, Extraordinary

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• What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade. What good stories deal with is the horror and incomprehensibility of time, the dark encroachment of old catastrophes...

  Joy Williams

  Dark, People, Ordinary

  "Joy Williams, The Art of Fiction No. 223". Interview with Paul Winner, www.theparisreview.org. 2014.

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• I've done more than 10,000 interviews, and I've learnt that you've got to do your homework. I bury myself in research beforehand. And you have to be genuinely interested in people; there's a cornucopia of great, ordinary people out there with wonderful, colourful stories.

  Ray Martin

  Communication, Media, People

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• You've got to involve yourself in doing something for other people all the time. I know that sounds sentimental, but you see, ordinary people are the most generous people on Earth without question. And what I think we should do is constantly try to give as much of ourselves as we can to each other - that's the secret of happiness for all of us.

  Peter Cundall

  Thinking, Giving, People

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• The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness of their dreams, the desperate vitality of their ambitions, that they stand apart from ordinary people of good will.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Dream, Ambition, People

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• The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well.

  Alan Keyes

  Opportunity, People, Judging

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• The extraordinary lies in the path of ordinary people.

  Paulo Coelho

  Lying, People, Ordinary

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 05, 2014

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