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You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life. -- Dave Winfield
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. -- Edmund Hillary
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable. -- Salman Rushdie
And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things. -- Viola Davis
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
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
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
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
Ordinary people can do extraordinary things. -- Patricia Stephens Due
Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things. -- Donna Summer
Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look. -- Jodi Picoult
It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results. -- Warren Buffett
Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith. -- Pope Francis
Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. -- Marie Angelique Arnauld
The main goal in my life is to make extraordinary things out of the ordinary. -- Vittorio Grigolo
Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal. -- Irena Sendler
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. -- Paulo Coelho
Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people -- Phillip Adams
The Chinese have done some extraordinary things in terms of the investments they've made in alternative sources of energy. -- Henry Paulson
To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well. -- Jim Rohn
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
The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way. -- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society. -- Marco Rubio
The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way. -- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
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
The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself. -- Bear Grylls
One of the reasons why I decided to participate in 'HawthoRNe' was I really wanted the opportunity to show how ordinary people do extraordinary things. -- Jada Pinkett Smith
I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby. -- Celine Dion
It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word. -- Peter Shaffer
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
Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God. -- Mother Teresa
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time. -- Andrew Cohen
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
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
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
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
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
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
When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage. -- Liya Kebede
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
The interesting thing about Hain is that he's not a very interesting character. He's not fabulously clever. He's not a great policeman. He's not hugely charismatic. I'd describe him as a kind-of Chekhovian character. He's an ordinary bloke, to whom extraordinary things have happened. Which is quite hard to play, I have to say. -- Robbie Coltraine
Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without. -- Jodi Picoult
Do ordinary things with extraordinary love. -- Mother Teresa
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well. -- Jim Rohn
There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things. -- Neal Shusterman
When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen. -- Brian Houston
...ordinary people are capable of doing truly extraordinary things. -- Richard Goldman
To find extraordinary things, go to the ordinary streets! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things. -- Theodore Levitt
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable -- Thomas Fowell Buxton
I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things. -- Iyanla Vanzant
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things. -- Barack Obama
Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus. -- Jon Gordon
I love underdogs, people who have achieved extraordinary things against the odds. -- Phil Keoghan
You can always work harder and we are capable of extraordinary things. -- Sally Fitzgibbons
How can you do anything extraordinary by doing things the ordinary way? -- Ryan Buell
I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more -- Lewis Carroll
The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . ! -- Twiggy
Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity. -- Emily Carr
As for extraordinary things, all the provision in the world would not suffice. -- Michel de Montaigne
We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to. -- Dave Eggers
Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often. -- Earl Weaver
Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things. -- Michael Gerber
The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things. -- Peter Drucker
Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things. -- Neil Gershenfeld
At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen. -- James A. Baldwin
Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort. -- John Hinckley Jr.
It is extraordinary to have time to again study Le nozze di Figaro and discover new things. -- Riccardo Muti
An ordinary woman who makes herself available to an extraordinary God can do amazing things for God. -- Elizabeth George
There are no extraordinary people only ordinary people who do extraordinary things with what they've been given -- Brad Brown
Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count. -- Studs Terkel
Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness. -- Jean Vanier
I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. -- Ransom Riggs
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God loves to use ordinary people just like you and me, faults and all, to do extraordinary things. -- Joel Osteen
Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary. -- Margaret Cho
The people who do the most extraordinary things in the world are never "realistic." They're passionate. They trust themselves. -- Deepak Chopra
In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things. -- Jim Valvano
How important is excitement to happiness? The key is to get excited about the mundane-- not just extraordinary things -- Dennis Prager
When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them. -- Oprah Winfrey
Ordinary people who faithfully, diligently, and consistently do simple things that are right before God will bring forth extraordinary results. -- David A. Bednar
Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else. -- Chuck Noll
Liberals don't believe that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. If they promoted that, there'd be no need for liberalism. -- Rush Limbaugh
The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things. -- Veronique Vienne
It is an extraordinary thing but it is true, wars are only a means of publicising the things already accomplished. -- Gertrude Stein
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
If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space. -- Tom Kelley
The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems. -- Alfonso A. Ossorio
The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things. -- Brian Tracy
You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well. -- Warren Buffett
Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things. -- Studs Terkel
Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things -- Dee Hock
I think if people want to see pure sex in the movie, they have the Internet and the extraordinary things are available. -- Ivan Reitman
We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me. -- Marianne Williamson
Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once." -- Samuel Smiles
It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
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
Celebrity has some amazing advantages, of course it does. You're given an extraordinary power. It's a door-opener. I might not have to queue for things. -- Geri Halliwell
It always takes a group of people working together with a common purpose in an atmosphere of trust and collaboration to get extraordinary things done. -- James M. Kouzes
She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people... -- Nicholas Sparks
Our biggest enemy is our own self-doubt. We really can achieve extraordinary things in our lives. But we sabotage our greatness because of our fear -- Robin Sharma
I've learned that nobody is either all good or all evil. We all make mistakes, but we all are also capable of accomplishing extraordinary things. -- Kelly Stables
I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary. -- Andy Warhol
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
He said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things, then all things proved to be extraordinary. -- Dean Koontz
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
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Small teams driven by their passion with a clear focus can do extraordinary things. Things that only large corporations and governments could do in the past. -- Peter Diamandis
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are. -- Desmond Tutu
It's not the big things that add up in the end; it's the hundreds, thousands, or millions of little things that separate the ordinary from the extraordinary. -- Darren Hardy
I've done other things, but it always seems like my sci-fi projects have been what people respond to the most, because those fans are extraordinary, so passionate. -- Summer Glau
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
For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things. -- Drew Gilpin Faust
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
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
There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time. -- Jill Robinson
Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things. -- Catherine Deneuve
Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity. -- Cecelia Ahern

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