Quotes About Extraordinary Things

#1. The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

Dean Stanley

#2. My biggest ambition when I was younger was to appear on stage at what was then Nimrod, which is the theatre where my father used to take me on Sunday afternoons to see matinees. The most extraordinary things used to occur on that stage.

David Wenham

#3. Fiction is people having extraordinary reactions to ordinary things, but in genre fiction, they have ordinary reactions to extraordinary things.

Mary Robinette Kowal

#4. NASA calls stuff nominal instead of phenomenal, like it really is. So I have given up that there is going to be a balance and NASA is going to do certain things and we are finally in a state of existence where small groups of individuals can do extraordinary things, funded by single people.

Peter Diamandis

#5. People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they've said.

Charles McCarry

#6. How would it feel to live a full life and have no one remember it, to have no one remember the extraordinary things you accomplished, even if it was just waking up every day and finding the courage to get out of bed?

T.J. Klune

#7. Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

Patricia Stephens Due

#8. Buckminster Fuller was one of those world historic geniuses who reminded us of the extraordinary things that are possible, and inspires all of us to set about doing them!

Marianne Williamson

#9. The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

Peter Drucker

#10. I love underdogs, people who have achieved extraordinary things against the odds.

Phil Keoghan

#11. It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.

Paul Gilding

#12. You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.

Joan Armatrading

#13. When faith touches your heart, you can walk on water.
When fear pricks your soul, you can sink on land.
With a great mind, you can achieve countless things.
With a strong heart, you can achieve extraordinary things.
With a loving soul, you can achieve impossible things.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#14. You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets you believe in extraordinary things that move you in some way, in an almost operatic sensibility? That to me is the most fun I have at the movies.

Christopher Nolan

#15. Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.

Irena Sendler

#16. I'm just an ordinary woman who has somehow managed to do some extraordinary things!

Fiona Roberts

#17. It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.

John Green

#18. I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

Ransom Riggs

#19. Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.

Donna Summer

#20. Champions don't do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the other team to react. They follow the habits they've learned.

Charles Duhigg

#21. As we continue advancing and leveraging GIS and as we keep bringing in new generations of technology as well as new generations of people, my sense is we're going to achieve extraordinary things.

Jack Dangermond

#22. 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

#23. If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space.

Tom Kelley

#24. Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

Joe Biden

#25. It is remarkable how quickly extraordinary things turn ordinary.

Nathan Hill

#26. One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Salman Rushdie

#27. As for extraordinary things, all the provision in the world would not suffice.

Michel De Montaigne

#28. We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things.

David Cronenberg

#29. It's strange, the lack of emotion, the absence of drama in reality. When things happen in real life, extraordinary things, there's no music, there's no dah-dah-daaahhs. There's no close-ups. No dramatic camera angles. Nothing happens. Nothing stops, the rest of the world goes on.

Kevin Brooks

#30. Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny
something greater than you could've imagined.

C.S. Lewis

#31. The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

Graham Swift

#32. And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks. You must create the change that you want to see. Ordinary people can accomplish extraordinary things.

Barack Obama

#33. The people who do the most extraordinary things in the world are never "realistic." They're passionate. They trust themselves.

Deepak Chopra

#34. What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.

Barack Obama

#35. In every time, in every culture, ordinary people have done extraordinary things.

M.R. Neer

#36. There are no extraordinary people only ordinary people who do extraordinary things with what they've been given

Brad Brown

#37. If you survive the extraordinary things, it will often be the little things that will kill you.

William Frisbee

#38. It's about recognizing that the great movements and moments in history laid on the backs of ordinary people who simply chose to do extraordinary things.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#39. 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

#40. You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way you think they should.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#41. The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.

Brian Tracy

#42. And what some people don't understand was that bleeding wasn't a sign of weakness; it was a sign of strength. It demonstrated to the world that you were vulnerable and ordinary, but when you wanted something enough, and fought hard for it, you were capable of doing extraordinary things.

Natasha Ngan

#43. Liberals don't believe that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. If they promoted that, there'd be no need for liberalism.

Rush Limbaugh

#44. But these great minds cannot avoid doing extraordinary things!

Samuel Richardson

#45. I found myself doing extraordinary things that arent in the textbooks. Then the IMF asked the U.S. to please print money. The whole world is now practicing what they have been saying I should not. I decided that God had been on my side and had come to vindicate me.

Gideon Gono

#46. In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.

Jim Valvano

#47. Those who look for the beauties in the extraordinary things will miss the beauties in the ordinary things!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#48. Great men and women are not extraordinary people who do extraordinary things. They are ordinary people who do ordinary things with integrity.

Jayce O'Neal

#49. 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

#50. God loves to use ordinary people just like you and me, faults and all, to do extraordinary things.

Joel Osteen

#51. We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Dave Eggers

#52. Passion is what drives us crazy, what makes us do extraordinary things, to discover, to challenge ourselves. Passion is and should always be the heart of courage.

Midori Komatsu

#53. It is difficult to believe extraordinary things.

Katherine Rundell

#54. Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.

Emily Carr

#55. By doing extraordinary things you are contributing to create a better world. Memorable should be the new usual ...

Juanmarketing

#56. Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.

Catherynne M Valente

#57. If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.

Loretta Girzaitis

#58. 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

#59. I'm not as I was but at this present moment I have to say, I feel very envious of someone who's young and active and starting out in the argument. Just think of the extraordinary things that are waiting to be known

Christopher Hitchens

#60. But these great minds cannot avois doing extraordinary things!

Samuel Richardson

#61. I only know I saw extraordinary things in my wanderings over the next few years, and I also met a lot of good people. It seems almost an insult to call them normal people, or ordinary people, but they were both. And certainly they give such words as "normal" and "ordinary" a feel of nobility for me.

Stephen King

#62. I think if people want to see pure sex in the movie, they have the Internet and the extraordinary things are available.

Ivan Reitman

#63. When circumstances are right, unlikely people do extraordinary things.

Robin Hobb

#64. When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

Madeleine L'Engle

#65. It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

Warren Buffett

#66. America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

Marco Rubio

#67. We're extraordinary people. We must do extraordinary things.

Jamie O'Neill

#68. The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was that ordinary people, when they are working together can do extraordinary things.

Barack Obama

#69. Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.

Neil Gershenfeld

#70. Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

Pope Francis

#71. What I have always loved best about the history of the world is that it is true. That all the extraordinary things we read were no less real than you and I are today.

E.H. Gombrich

#72. I am an ordinary woman who did extraordinary things. The first to qualify as a ground engineer. The first to fly to Australia single-handed. A million people lined the streets of London when I came home. I waved to them from an open-topped car like the queen, the queen of the air.

Kate Lord Brown

#73. I can introduce new parts because when you are on stage in front of a very happy audience or people who love what you are doing, you are able to do extraordinary things that you yourself didn't think you could do before.

Rokia Traore

#74. Ordinary people are capable of doing truly extraordinary things.

Richard Goldman

#75. You can always work harder and we are capable of extraordinary things.

Sally Fitzgibbons

#76. The Chinese have done some extraordinary things in terms of the investments they've made in alternative sources of energy.

Henry Paulson

#77. How important is excitement to happiness? The key is to get excited about the mundane
not just extraordinary things

Dennis Prager

#78. The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things ... !

Twiggy

#79. You have often seen in the cinema, erich, haven't you, that between extraordinary people extraordinary things like for example extraordinary love can arise. so we only have to be extraordinary and see what happens.

Elfriede Jelinek

#80. When people send people on summer camps or bonding trips, they send them to do things like high rope climbing or extraordinary things. And when you do extraordinary things with people, like fighting battles or simulating huge wars, you do bond very quickly.

Anna Popplewell

#81. Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

Earl Weaver

#82. Maybe there's no limit to the kind of extraordinary things I can experience here.

Ryohgo Narita

#83. At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.

James A. Baldwin

#84. When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen.

Brian Houston

#85. When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.

Frances Beinecke

#86. We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

Jean Vanier

#87. The main goal in my life is to make extraordinary things out of the ordinary.

Vittorio Grigolo

#88. Mandela has played a crucial part in history. He's done some extraordinary things, not only for his country but also for the whole world.

Zinedine Zidane

#89. The greatest things in life are usually accomplished by ordinary people who want to do extraordinary things.

Christine E. McLean

#90. There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.

Neal Shusterman

#91. You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

Dave Winfield

#92. God does extraordinary things with ordinary people.

Kimberly M. Hartfield

#93. But the Spirit was not limited to doing surprising and extraordinary things. He was present in the Old Testament period in giving civil rule and government ... moral virtues ... physical strength ... and intellectual abilities.

John Owen

#94. People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won't be shocked. Or judgmental.

Ruth Rendell

#95. We are a church of sinners but we must not be afraid of holiness. Do not be afraid to aim for holiness and turn yourselves over to the love of God. Holiness does not mean performing extraordinary things but carrying out daily things in an extraordinary way that is with love, joy and faith.

Pope Francis

#96. Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

Theodore Levitt

#97. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Paulo Coelho

#98. Angel of Fire is about an ordinary boy to whom extraordinary things happen

Wendy Milton

#99. There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost; there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.

Susan Orlean

#100. I just did a film in which I had to be a dancer and I was able to do all kinds of extraordinary things. A lot of people turn 50 and talk about what they're not going to do anymore. I embarked on something that I'd wanted to do when I was 5.

Jane Seymour