Top 100 Quotes About Ordinary Person
#1. The knowledge of the Spirit is the true secret of creativity, leadership and happiness. It is spiritual intelligence that makes an ordinary person a genius. When a genius loses his spiritual intelligence, he becomes quite ordinary.
Awdhesh Singh
#2. It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.
George Will
#4. 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
#5. The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John Chrysostom or Meister Eckhart. And so I assumed that I am a very ordinary person, therefore, if it happened to me it could happen to anyone.
Terence McKenna
#6. 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
#7. Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person.
Veronique Vienne
#8. Life at times, gives the most unexpected and shocking outcome for the most ordinary person, leading to extraordinary tales.
Arvind Parashar
#9. A hero is an ordinary person who performs an ordinary task In an extraordinary situation.
Ingibjorg N. Frid
#10. Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
Edmund Hillary
#11. Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.
Donna Summer
#12. The feeling often comes over me that I am not at all remarkable; it is fun to plan a career, but in all probability I shan't turn out a bit different from any other ordinary person.
Jean Webster
#13. Doing anything worthwhile will present challenges, but everyone who achieves their goal is an ordinary person who becomes extraordinary.
Joanne Van Leerdam
#14. When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances.
Dougray Scott
#15. Please don't ask me for the actual answer to anything, because I don't have it. Because all I do is look at stuff and ask questions. What can I say? I just think the world's barking mad. Look, I'm not an expert. I'm just an ordinary person.
Annie Lennox
#16. I hope that as the Senate and American people learn more about me, they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.
Sonia Sotomayor
#17. Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'.
Graham Norton
#18. It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch.
Daphne Du Maurier
#19. When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#20. 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
#21. I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.
Julia Roberts
#22. I do feel as if ... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
Kate Grenville
#23. All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can't expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.
Dalai Lama
#24. Give a truly good person power, and they're still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they're still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn't evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don't always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#25. If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.
Peter Deunov
#26. Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in you humdrum routine, the true poetry of life - the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary person, of the plain, toilworn, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and griefs.
William Osler
#27. True Leaders take an Ordinary Person and turn them into an Extraordinary Performer.
Farshad Asl
#28. And he wonders if maybe Nina is right; if a superhero is nothing but an ordinary person who believes that she cannot fail.
Jodi Picoult
#29. I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion.
Mason Cooley
#30. A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.
Christopher Reeve
#31. I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equally unique perspective on the world as someone who is famous or perhaps more privileged.
Brandon Stanton
#32. Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#33. What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature ... but life itself strikes him as commonplace, when in truth a blade of grass or a neuron in the brain is a greater miracle ...
Sydney J. Harris
#34. Discover your gift if you don't want to live the life of an ordinary person
Sunday Adelaja
#35. What makes and ordinary person heroic is when they give up the thing they want most
Jane Heller
#36. History foretells that when you give an ordinary person the wisdom of what is right and the dignity to follow his or her heart, the world as we know it changes or goes through a phase
Dew Platt
#38. 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
#39. I'm not that big a celebrity. I'm just an ordinary person.
Liu Wen
#40. If you discover the secret of diligence then you will not be an ordinary person
Sunday Adelaja
#41. When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!
Philip Yancey
#42. I am just an ordinary person trying to do an ordinary job.
Jeremy Corbyn
#43. The truth is that God can do anything He pleases through an ordinary person who is fully dedicated to Him.
Henry T. Blackaby
#44. Propose a new concept, most people especially acquaintances will outrightly reject it on knowing that it's from an ordinary person; but when the same becomes the popular subject, none will ever reflect to accept that they once used to object to the very same idea's beneficial effect.
Anuj
#45. I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about things.
Michael Pollan
#46. What do I aspire to be? Just an ordinary person who values living.
Marty Rubin
#47. Remember. Every day, some ordinary person does something extraordinary. Today, it's your turn.
Lou Holtz
#48. As far as I get as more I learn. As now I don't think that ordinary person is Stephen King... as far as now I think that he looks at people's behavior and look as far as they can reach... ( - Awesome as that!)
Deyth Banger
#49. Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.
William Zinsser
#50. Later, they began to explore the secret idea that Deborah shared with all the ill - that she had infinitely more power than the ordinary person and was at the same time also his inferior.
Joanne Greenberg
#51. I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.
Fay Weldon
#52. I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.
Buzz Aldrin
#53. I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.
Rachel Joyce
#54. It was said that one of them, either the actor or the history teacher, was superfluous in this world, but you weren't, you weren't superfluous, there is no duplicate of you to come and replace you at your mother's side, you were unique, just as every ordinary person is unique, truly unique.
Jose Saramago
#55. There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.
Alan Moore
#56. What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.
James Hillman
#57. When a desire is deep, it reaches the subconscious mind and calls for cultivation of qualities that will help fulfill desires, and this is what transforms an ordinary person into a great leader.
Awdhesh Singh
#58. We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
Wadah Khanfar
#59. I love stories of female empowerment. I love stories of, "Hey, I'm an ordinary person." "No, you're not!" I love stories about not knowing you have it in you, but when called to task, you rise and you find out who you are.
Joseph McGinty Nichol
#60. If I want to experience the life of an ordinary person, I cannot do it in Asia.
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
#61. The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail.
Elliot Richardson
#62. Never forget that it is by choice that the ordinary person decides to live a life that is extraordinary.
Cheryl Koevoet
#64. I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
Sonia Sotomayor
#65. The great achievements of western capitalism have rebounded primarily to the benefit of the ordinary person. These achievements have made available to the masses conveniences and amenities that were previously the exclusive prerogative of the rich and powerful.
Milton Friedman
#66. The average ordinary person, in the worst slums of America, someone who might even hate the law and disagree with the government, they would do something about that [abandoned child]. But in Afghanistan, people hardly have the means to take care of themselves, let alone a random child on the street.
Immortal Technique
#67. 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
#68. I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.
Sidney Poitier
#69. I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.
Natalie Cole
#70. The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal state for the ordinary person is tyranny, arbitrary control and abuse mainly by their own government.
Walter E. Williams
#71. Nor was I the only one struggling.To live an ordinary life, like any ordinary person, must have been the vain dream of countless others.
Sayo Masuda
#72. How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)
Joseph Campbell
#73. Here's my definition of a hero. A hero is an ordinary person given being and action by something bigger than themselves. One thing I'm sure about is I'm real ordinary. Yet I've had the chance to touch the lives of a lotta people.
Werner Erhard
#74. Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
Thomas A. Edison
#75. One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.
Blaise Pascal
#77. Take new values : Leave behind a legend to be followed by those who follow you. Be a yogi - don't be an ordinary person.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#78. I am living proof that dreams come true. I am an ordinary person leading an extraordinary life.
Cara Colter
#79. I want to tell all those who believe in God that I am not the Chosen One. I also want to tell all the atheists that I am not a history-maker. I am but an ordinary person. Unfortunately, I have not been able to walk the ordinary person's path. My path is, in reality, the journey of a civilization.
Liu Cixin
#80. If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.
Vince Vaughn
#81. There's no way to explain to a child that the line between good and evil isn't nearly as black and white as a fairy tale would leave you to believe. That an ordinary person can turn into a villain, under the right circumstances. That sometimes we dragon slayers do things we aren't proud of.
Jodi Picoult
#82. My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character.
Gene Wilder
#83. 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
#84. Hillary Clinton is now in Iowa. She's spending every waking minute of her day meeting ordinary people, and it's to prepare her for a job in which she will never again meet an ordinary person.
David Letterman
#85. Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.
Cecelia Ahern
#86. People in the business always say, "You look fabulous." You get that all the time and it kind of goes in one ear and out the other because most of the time they just say that to make you feel good. It's nice when you hear it from an ordinary person and then I appreciate it.
Heidi Klum
#87. I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.
Wael Ghonim
#88. A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.
Chris Bohjalian
#89. Perhaps events had their own way of ordering themselves , perhaps beginnings and endings always had coincidences no ordinary person could penetrate. In the flood of time, human beings were no more than flecks of grit, borne along by the flow.
Chan Ho-Kei
#90. I noticed that he laid stress on my "intelligence." It puzzled me rather why what would count as a good point in an ordinary person should be used against an accused man as an overwhelming proof of his guilt.
Albert Camus
#91. The people in Detroit are poor, but most of them are good. There are things going on here beyond an ordinary person's control. These people are hungry and they have no job. No possibility of a job. They're stuck here.
Charlie LeDuff
#92. There are three kinds of friends in the world. An ordinary person sees only who you are; for that you don't need a friend. Then there's a friend who sees in you what you can be. And then there's the real holy Friend, and the presence of this Friend you are already.
Shlomo Carlebach
#93. Focusing on you target will enable you to achieve more in your life than any ordinary person can ever do
Sunday Adelaja
#94. Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
C.S. Lewis
#95. I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things.
Iyanla Vanzant
#96. If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying.
Jaroslav Seifert
#97. Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
C.S. Lewis
#98. It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.
Joe Slovo
#99. The problem with climate change is that it's quite complicated for the ordinary person to understand.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
#100. When the anointing of God is upon a person, it changes that individual from being a little ordinary person into being a giant.
Sunday Adelaja
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