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• Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.

  Jean Vanier

  Love, Mean, Knowing

  Jean Vanier (2010). “Living Gently in a Violent World (Large Print 16pt)”, p.55, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.

  Chuck Noll

  Inspirational, Leadership, Sports

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• The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.

  Oswald Chambers

  Religious, Attitude, Character

  Oswald Chambers (1985). “My Utmost for His Highest”

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• I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

  Frederick Franck

  Art, Drawing, Miracle

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• We bless the life around us far more than we realize. Many simple, ordinary things that we do can affect those around us in profound ways: the unexpected phone call, the brief touch, the willingness to listen generously, the warm smile or wink of recognition. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Simple, Phones, Profound

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• Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus.

  Jon Gordon

  Commitment, Successful, People

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• We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life and that is where we have to prove our stamina and strength.

  Oswald Chambers

  Beautiful, Inspiration, Sunrise

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.568, Discovery House

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• Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

  Daryn Kagan

  War, People, Ordinary

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• Through persistence and hard work, we can each unlock the potential God has given us. We have within us not only the capacity to accomplish great things but also the ability to do ordinary things in extraordinary ways.

  Lloyd D. Newell

  Hard Work, Persistence, Ordinary

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• What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary things: through cooking and small talk, through storytelling, making love, fishing, tending animals and sweet corn and flowers, through sports, music, and books, raising kids-all the places where the gravy soaks in and grace shines through. Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Lacking any other purpose in life, it would be good enough to live for their sake.

  Garrison Keillor

  Sports, Sweet, Flower

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• Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, Nature, Men

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• And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can, they will be praised or not blamed; but when they cannot, and wish to do it anyway, here lies the error and the blame.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Lying, Men, Errors

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• I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

  Eric Rohmer

  Thinking, Ordinary, Film

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• It's the ordinary things that seem important to me.

  Alex Colville

  Important, Ordinary, Seems

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• When you are happy you are ordinary, because to be happy is just to be natural. To be miserable is to become extraordinary. Nothing is special in being happy - trees are happy, birds are happy, animals are happy, children are happy. What is special in that? It is just the usual thing in existence. Existence is made of the stuff called happiness. Just look! - can't you see these trees?...so happy. Can't you see the birds singing?...so happily. Happiness has nothing special in it. Happiness is a very ordinary thing.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Children, Animal

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• The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or time and then finds it absolutely impossible that there be objects in this space or that processes occur during this time . . . the source of this kind of logic lies in excessive confidence in the so-called laws of thought.

  Ludwig Boltzmann

  Time, Philosophy, Lying

  "Ludwig Edward Boltzmann" by S. Rajasekar, September 7, 2006.

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• At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.

  William John Wills

  Girl, Education, Art

  William John Wills (1863). “A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria”, p.71, London : R. Bentley

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• It is in order to really see, to see ever deeper, ever more intensely, hence to be fully aware and alive, that I draw what the Chinese call 'The Ten Thousand Things' around me. Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

  Frederick Franck

  Drawing, Order, Discipline

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• Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Missing, Ordinary, Sometimes

  Jennifer Chiaverini (2012). “The Quilter's Apprentice: A Novel”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.

  Tracy Kidder

  Book, Writing, Sick World

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• I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Thinking, Interesting, Trying

  Scholastic Interview, www.scholastic.com. November 10, 2004.

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• Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the orther team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned.

  Charles Duhigg

  Team, Thinking, Champion

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.61, Random House

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• ...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.

  Bill Bryson

  People, Ordinary, Degrees

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• She raised her eyes to his. They had both come from misery, she thought, and survived it. They had been drawn together through violence and tragedy, and had overcome it. They walked different paths and had found a mutual route. Some things last, she thought. Some ordinary things. Like love.

  Nora Roberts

  Eye, Like Love, Tragedy

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• You know what, the jacket’s like the car.” "“Is this a riddle?” " , "“No,” Peabody said as Eve swiped the master.","“It’s an", "ordinary thing—well, special, but a jacket, right? And the car, it’s ordinary, it even looks it. But both of them have the special inside. Cop special especially, you know? He so gets you. That’s even better than a just-because present.”", "“You’re right. He does. And it is.” Inside, Eve paused another moment. “He’s worried about me.”", [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death]

  Nora Roberts

  Car, Special, Ordinary

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