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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. -- John W. Gardner
I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more. -- Marc Newson
I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings. -- Balthus
Do ordinary things with extraordinary love. -- Mother Teresa
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well. -- Jim Rohn
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
Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story. -- Arundhati Roy
Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness. -- Jean Vanier
Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things. -- Thomas Merton
The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things. -- Hans Christian Andersen
The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way. -- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
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
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
May we all be faithful in doing the day-to-day, ordinary things that prove our worthiness, for they will lead us to and qualify us for great things. -- James E. Faust
Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world. -- Pema Chodron
Well, you can think what you want, so long as you remember - no matter how ordinary things seem between us - I'm still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy, evil or otherwise, ever will. -- Richelle Mead
As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly things, as you call them --"ordinary things" is a better expression. That is the way the world is. -- Chaim Potok
We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life and that is where we have to prove our stamina and strength. -- Oswald Chambers
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. -- Jim Rohn
I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things. -- David Hockney
Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things. -- Donna Summer
You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life. -- Dave Winfield
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life. -- Eric Rohmer
And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things. -- Viola Davis
I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things. -- Khaled Hosseini
The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way. -- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems. -- Alfonso A. Ossorio
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
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
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
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
I happen to go for the simplest, most ordinary things. The extraordinary doesn't interest me. I'm not interested in psychotics. I'm interested in the person you don't expect to have a story. I like Everyman. -- John Hughes
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
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
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
I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality. -- Jonathan Stroud
It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden. -- Robert Adamson
I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my writing because I'm writing about ordinary things. -- Jeff Kinney
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
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
I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things. -- Rian Johnson
Do ordinary things extraordinarily well. -- Gregg Harris
Ordinary people can do extraordinary things. -- Patricia Stephens Due
A letter makes ordinary things seem important. -- Marilynne Robinson
Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things! -- Jim Valvano
Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me -- Marilynne Robinson
When ordinary people pray, extraordinary things can happen. -- Brian Houston
Champions do ordinary things better than everyone else. -- Chuck Noll
There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things. -- Neal Shusterman
...ordinary people are capable of doing truly extraordinary things. -- Richard Goldman
To find extraordinary things, go to the ordinary streets! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well. -- Catherine McAuley
It's the ordinary things that seem important to me. -- Alex Colville
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable -- Thomas Fowell Buxton
Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things. -- Theodore Levitt
Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things. -- Michel de Montaigne
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 am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things. -- Iyanla Vanzant
You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things. -- Oprah Winfrey
Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse. -- Friedrich Schiller
How can you do anything extraordinary by doing things the ordinary way? -- Ryan Buell
The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . ! -- Twiggy
There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have. -- Norman Spinrad
Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people. -- Sam Walton
A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way. -- Christopher Reeve
Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity. -- Emily Carr
Ordinary people can do extra ordinary things when they create opportunity towards their passion -- Sivaprakash Sidhu
The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness. -- Ruth Reichl
When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. -- Marilynne Robinson
Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people. -- Jack Nance
There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things. -- Vincent McNabb
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. -- Ezra Pound
Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most. -- Jennifer Chiaverini
People always step up and do things out of the ordinary at the Olympics, -- Jason Lezak
A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things. -- Peter Drucker
Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things. -- Michael Gerber
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit -- Stephen Leacock
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist. -- George Saintsbury
The main goal in my life is to make extraordinary things out of the ordinary. -- Vittorio Grigolo
They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that. -- Leigh Bardugo
I take it that reasonable human conduct is part of the ordinary course of things. -- Ryan Lindley
Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love. -- Shane Claiborne
One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts. -- C. S. Lewis
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Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things. -- Neil Gershenfeld
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
I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible. -- Edward Abbey
I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. -- Ransom Riggs
Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds. -- Jasper Fforde
I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up. -- Orel Hershiser
God loves to use ordinary people just like you and me, faults and all, to do extraordinary things. -- Joel Osteen
The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis. -- Lawrence Bender
A hero is an ordinary human being who does the best of things in the worst of times. -- Leon Leyson
To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well. -- Jim Rohn
I always like doing things that no one's ever done before. Doing things a little out of the ordinary. -- Chris Jericho
In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things. -- Jim Valvano
When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them. -- Oprah Winfrey
I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary. -- Chris Van Allsburg
Ordinary people who faithfully, diligently, and consistently do simple things that are right before God will bring forth extraordinary results. -- David A. Bednar
One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool. -- George Orwell
Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech. -- Oliver Herford
It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different. -- Cassandra Clare
If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out. -- Chuck Noll
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
The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things. -- Brian Tracy
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot. -- Henry Ward Beecher
If you want a team of smart, creative people to do extraordinary things, don't put them in a drab, ordinary space. -- Tom Kelley
We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage. -- Joni Mitchell
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
If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things. -- Idries Shah

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