Top 100 Ordinary Is Extraordinary Quotes
#1. Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.
Amedee Ozenfant
#2. The Ordinary is Extraordinary ..." my motto for life as a writer/Mom/woman
Lisa Barr
#3. But you - you notice mailboxes and wastebaskets and... and people. One who can see the ordinary is extraordinary indeed, Abigail Rook. - Jackaby
William Ritter
#4. The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Austin O'Malley
#5. Fiction is people having extraordinary reactions to ordinary things, but in genre fiction, they have ordinary reactions to extraordinary things.
Mary Robinette Kowal
#6. It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.
George Will
#7. Personally, love is very important for me. There are lots of ordinary things in life, so love should be extraordinary. I hope I achieve that.
Ranbir Kapoor
#8. I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.
Elon Musk
#9. The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.
Peter Drucker
#11. A witch, a term created by those with no concept of what I am, is nothing more than an ordinary person with an extraordinary capability. We're just like everyone else."
Jeanne Adams
#12. Christ's miracles were vivid manifestations to the senses that He is the Saviour of the body
and now as then the issues of life and death are in His hands
that our daily existence is a perpetual miracle. The extraordinary was simply a manifestation of God's power in the ordinary.
Frederick William Robertson
#13. I think God isn't interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of good news and love and comfort and hope across through people like us, ordinary people, or extraordinary people like Bono.
Philip Yancey
#14. I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
#15. The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
G.K. Chesterton
#16. A hero is an ordinary person who performs an ordinary task In an extraordinary situation.
Ingibjorg N. Frid
#17. I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.
Rob Lowe
#18. There is nothing called 'Extraordinary', it is just the way the World defines an 'ordinary' man or woman , who has recognized his own 'power to achieve' the IMPOSSIBLE ! Let us be ORDINARY, but an 'aware' ordinary , aware of our own selves !
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#19. Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.
Leonard Mlodinow
#20. Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life's challenges.
Michael Josephson
#21. Imagination is an extraordinary resource within each of us with powers not found in ordinary thought processes.
Deborah Sandella
#22. It is remarkable how quickly extraordinary things turn ordinary.
Nathan Hill
#23. Via doesn't see me as ordinary. She says she does, but if I were ordinary, she wouldn't feel like she needs to protect me that much. And mom and dad doesn't see me as ordinary, either. They see me as extraordinary. I think the only person in the world who realizes how ordinary I am is me.
R.J. Palacio
#24. Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.
Mason Cooley
#25. The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.
Brian Greene
#26. The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which.
Piero Scaruffi
#27. All too often people come to meditation in the hope of extraordinary results, like visions, lights, or some supernatural miracle. When no such thing occurs, they feel extremely disappointed. But the real miracle of meditation is more ordinary and much more useful ...
Sogyal Rinpoche
#28. The cinema should be human and be part of people's lives; it should focus on ordinary existences in sometimes extraordinary situations and places. That is what really motivates me.
Claire Denis
#29. It is the photographing of ordinary things, in extraordinary light, that produces extraordinary photographs.
David Young
#30. The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems.
Alfonso A. Ossorio
#31. When the extraordinary becomes ordinary it is time to move on.
Derek Darke
#32. Joy comes to us in moments - ordinary moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary. Scarcity culture may keep us afraid of living small, ordinary lives, but when you talk to people who have survived great losses, it is clear that joy is not a constant.
Brene Brown
#33. Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
Marquis De Sade
#34. They will never believe that an ordinary girl could do such an extraordinary thing,' Genevieve worried. 'What would I tell them?
'Tell them there is no such thing as an ordinary girl, said Bloom.
Doreen Cronin
#35. The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.
Mia Love
#36. Common people are often enough; that is why God made so many of them. Your job is to be
EXTRAORDINARY.
Shannon L. Alder
#37. If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#38. To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude ... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.
Ronald Blythe
#39. The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.
Brian Tracy
#40. I do have a religion; it's just not an ordinary one. In fact it is an extraordinary one. My religion is Literature.
Stephan Attia
#41. What interests me is the experience of ordinary people. To tell you the truth, although I can repeat certain dates, statistics, and so on, what I am really curious about is what happens to ordinary men, women, and children in extraordinary times.
Jacqueline Winspear
#42. There has never been, and never again will be a human being like you. There is nothing ordinary about you. If you feel ordinary, it is because you have chosen to hide the extraordinary parts of yourself from the world.
Barbara De Angelis
#43. My passion is to see ordinary believers receive extraordinary answers to their prayers.
Jane Glenchur
#44. The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
Erich Fromm
#45. One of the most effective means for transcending ordinary and moving into the realm of extraordinary is saying yes more frequently and eliminating no almost completely. I call it saying yes to life. Say yes to yourself, to your family, your children, your coworkers, and your business ...
Wayne Dyer
#46. As soon as it is seen, the extraordinary starts becoming ordinary!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#47. Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.
Desmond Tutu
#48. 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 Frank
#49. You could say Shakespeare is so extraordinary precisely because he was so ordinary. He had all the usual anxieties and understandings of what it is to have children, lose children, get married, struggle to make a living and so on.
Simon Callow
#50. Map reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#51. Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.
Paul David Tripp
#52. A wound that'd make an ordinary man unconscious, I won't lose to it. A wound that would kill an ordinary person, I won't lose to it! To face one who is extraordinary, Hawk Eyes - I can't allow myself to be ordinary!
Zoro
#53. We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.
Natalie Goldberg
#54. Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
#55. With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.
Robert Toombs
#56. It is perfectly banal to establish a city in the middle of nature but it is perfectly extraordinary to establish nature in the middle of a city! Ordinary nations do the first, extraordinary nations do the second!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#57. This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.
Brian Perkins
#58. The good life (for your kids) is where you make the ordinary extraordinary, where you make the natural miraculous. It's where you make the everyday unique.
Shmuley Boteach
#59. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.
Cecelia Ahern
#60. The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
Seth Godin
#61. Heroics is often about putting our life on the line. Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line. In today's world, that's pretty extraordinary.
Brene Brown
#62. Heroism is an extraordinary feat of the flesh; holiness is an ordinary act of the spirit. One may bring personal glory; the other always gives God glory.
Charles Colson
#63. I believe Success is achieved by ordinary people with Extraordinary Determination.
Zig Ziglar
#64. 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
#65. Alchemy is taking something ordinary and turning it into something extraordinary, sometimes in a way that cannot be explained.
Kenneth Coombs
#66. What we do know is that the era of climate change is upon us and the extraordinary in California today will become the ordinary of tomorrow.
Chris Hayes
#67. Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well.
Jim Rohn
#68. Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.
Brian Tracy
#69. Never forget that it is by choice that the ordinary person decides to live a life that is extraordinary.
Cheryl Koevoet
#70. I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
Sonia Sotomayor
#71. Hazing is an extraordinary activity that, when it occurs often enough, becomes perversely ordinary as those who engage in it grow desensitized to its inhumanity.
Hank Nuwer
#72. Drop the idea of being Extraordinary! It's keeping you mediocre. To be Ordinary is the most extraordinary thing in the world. The Ordinary person has light in his eyes; he has become extraordinary but he has no idea of it.
Rajneesh
#73. True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This is most visible in extraordinary lives, in saints and martyrs. But it is no less true for ordinary people like us.
John Ortberg
#74. The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker I know is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now.'
Lee Hall
#75. When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.
Aberjhani
#76. The difference between greater people and greatest people is the "est" which stands for "extra mile". Extra steps give Extraordinary results; Extraordinary people do Extra things.
Israelmore Ayivor
#77. Orthodoxy is marked by sobriety, not by emotional enthusiasm. It is also marked by a quite "ordinary" persistence in living the humble, consistent life of Christ, not by seeking out extraordinary experiences, especially supernatural ones.
Andrew Stephen Damick
#78. The difference between being ordinary and extraordinary is doing the right thing while nobody is watching.
Jim Rohn
#79. When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.
Kristin Armstrong
#80. Rae Carson's heroine is a perfect blend of the ordinary and the extraordinary. I loved her.
Megan Whalen Turner
#81. An All-American is an ordinary person with an extraordinary desire to excel. You don't get to the top of the mountain by just dreaming. It's nice to dream. But it's the work ethic and pride that makes you get to that mountain top and that level of success.
Dick Vitale
#82. Courage is the moment when an ordinary being becomes an extraordinary being.
Brian Jacques
#83. The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries; that even in environments inhospitable to man, all sort of entities might thrive.
Jodi Picoult
#84. A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
Barack Obama
#85. Sometimes that which seems ordinary is really most extraordinary of all.
M.P. Kozlowsky
#86. The driven, passionate ones give their best on ordinary days and that is why they are extraordinary.
Twinkle Khanna
#87. For me, the difference between an 'ordinary' and an 'extraordinary' person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.
Jody Williams
#88. Ordinary is the door for extraordinary.
Rajneesh
#89. To be ordinary is a choice, for everyone has it in them to become extraordinary.
Lauren Lola
#90. Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
C.S. Lewis
#91. When you love someone, it seeps out of everything you do, it bleeds into everything you say, it becomes so ever-present, that eventually it becomes ordinary to hear, no matter how extraordinary it is to feel.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#92. No longer do we accept the 'sublimation model' according to which 'the function of art is to sublimate or transform experience, raising it from ordinary to extraordinary, from commonplace to unique, from low to high'.
Rosalind E. Krauss
#93. To face one who is extraordinary,I cant allow myself to be ordinary
Zoro
#94. Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible
Cherie Carter-Scott
#95. Creating is an ordinary act, creation its extraordinary outcome.
Kevin Ashton
#96. The special life is where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, the natural becomes miraculous, the everyday becomes unique. Finding the magic and wonder within nature is the most assured means by which children rediscover the joy of life.
Shmuley Boteach
#97. It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.
G.K. Chesterton
#98. Our perspective is what holds the key to whether the solution is ordinary or extraordinary.
Dewitt Jones
#99. Leadership is the ability to elicit extraordinary performance from ordinary people.
Brian Tracy
#100. I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the problems of being an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation.
Brian Dennehy
