Unusual Quotes

• If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 02, 2016

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• Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!

  William Arthur Ward

  4th Of July, Generosity, Losing Yourself

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• Everything in life is unusual until you become accustomed to it.

  L. Frank Baum

  Life Is, Accustomed

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• It's not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents.

  Joy Browne

  Women, Kids, Mad

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• We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.

  Beaumont Newhall

  Photography, Usual, Not Interested

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• Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.

  John Twelve Hawks

  Sleep, New Experiences, Rest Of Life

  "The Traveler". Book by John Twelve Hawks, 2005.

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• Being creative means first of all doing something unusual... On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has to be reasonable for people to take it seriously.

  Howard Gardner

  Mean, Hands, Ideas

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• Wear an unusual accessory to complete your outfit.

  Chelsea Leyland

  Accessories

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• It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Learning, Science, Mind

  1925 Science and the Modern World.

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• This is a rather unusual situation in physics. We perform approximate calculations which are valid only in some regime and this gives us the exact answer. This is a theorist's heaven- exact results with approximate methods.

  Nathan Seiberg

  Science, Giving, Heaven

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• I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Fire

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• Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Matter, Photographer

  Brett Abbott, Edward Weston, J. Paul Getty Museum (2005). “Edward Weston: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.60, Getty Publications

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• I am a big believer that everybody has unusual, and certainly untapped, potential. The more people like that we can line up with their skill set and with their abilities, the more success we get to have.

  Blake Roney

  Skills, People, Lines

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• You surely know that in the course of a long marriage it is not unusual for a husband or a wife to develop a crush on someone else.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Crush, Husband, Long

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

  Philip Zimbardo

  Smart, Hero, Unusual Things

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the present. It asks of us a welcoming spirit to greet all that life presents to us with a wise, respectful, and kindly heart. We can bow to both beauty and suffering, to our entanglements and confusion, to our fears and to the injustices of the world. Honoring the truth in this way is the path to freedom.

  Jack Canfield

  Wise, Spiritual, Heart

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• Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.

  Bobby Charlton

  Sports, Kids, Thinking

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• Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Ideas, Romance, Mind

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Men Without Women”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.

  William Arthur Ward

  Life, Live For Today, Conservative

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• This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Unusual Things, Victory, Defeated

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• Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is.

  Bill Gates

  Heat, Kind, Environment

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.

  Terence McKenna

  Alive, Earth, Matter

  "True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival".

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• Truth occurs in unusual places. Sometimes it's in the frozen food section of the supermarket, sometimes it appears while you are waiting for your car to be fixed, sometimes you see it while in bed with someone you love, sometimes you find it while you're meditating on a lone mountain.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Car, Waiting

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• Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.

  Julius Caesar

  Obscurity, Reefs, Unfamiliar

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• To me, strange is just another way of saying unusual. And unusual is just another way of saying special

  Drew Hayden Taylor

  Special, Way, Strange

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