CRITIC OR CITRIC?Anagram of ordinary passing judgement on talentedKamil Ali

An great building will never stand if you neglect the small bricks.

A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does.

The might of the majority is not always right because to sense alright everything that is of a great insight, everyone needs to have a farsighted vision in their eyesight. And the universal fact is...

The most interesting people are the unusual. No one writes about or discusses the average, the ordinary, or the common; they write about and discuss the weird, the mad and the different, so if you...

You don’t need superpowers to be someones hero

And once their imaginations are liberated, they begin glimpse the grand interconnectedness of all things. Eternity begins to peek out from behind the everyday things and they see the trappings of any earthly moment as...

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what’s fascinating to me.

I’d rather be weird than ordinary. Ordinary is so boring.

Holiness has most often been revealed to me in the exquisite pun of the first syllable, in holes- in not enough help, in brokenness, mess. High holy places, with ethereal sounds and stained glass, can...

I’m drawn to unusual, even freakish people. Why? They are far more engaging than the ordinary, which the world has too much of.

The trouble in life is not that you are extraordinarily or ordinarily talented but you are read posthumously.

Indeed if they ever once saw the endless supply of eternal opportunities The Adversary offers them every temporal moment of day after day of their fuddled little lives, they would stagger at the sheer industry...

Ordinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can’t change much or go any higher than they are, but you’re a genius. You’ll keep going up and up, and see more and...

Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are...

Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.

Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don’t drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.

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!

I don’t pretend to be an ordinary housewife.

Well, honestly I feel like an ordinary woman.

It’s time for you to start creating some extraordinary things in your life, because there is absolutely nothing ordinary about your mind.

Logan stopped and gazed skyward as the kite began to soar above them, and when he clapped his hands at Ben’s obvious joy, she was strucked by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary...

Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really.

You are as ordinary as spring,’ he murmured. ‘As powerless as sunlight.’ He ran his fingertips down her neck. ‘And when I touch you, I burn,’ he said, making her heart stop and a flare...

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?

For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with...

APPROACHRain is falling. Winter approaches. I drive towards it. In the slow rain. In the semi-darkness. Cello music is playing in the car. The deep sad sound of the cello. It almost swamps me. Routine...

Do not ask your childrento strive for extraordinary lives.Such striving may seem admirable,but it is the way of foolishness.Help them instead to find the wonderand the marvel of an ordinary life.Show them the joy of...

It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I’d miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I’m sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.

That’s important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.

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.

Successful people are defined as ordinary people who never gave up on their dreams and passion is the secret of that persistence!

They were just the ordinary sounds of of people beginning their day, silly raucous, discordant, but they were the most beautiful sounds on earth, the sounds of living people.

Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don’t accept the ego of ordinary people.

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

My life edges out any sense of sanity I can have, and I come to realize there won’t be a point where things can be ordinary again, or as ordinary as I would have them.

Extraordinary magic is woven through ordinary life. Look around!

To the ordinary, opposite, means hatred. Every person sees themselves as love. To the extraordinary, opposite means opportunity.

The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which.

Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do not apply what they know. To break the culture, look for more information; learn more and apply more....

One ordinary woman connected to an extraordinary God can make a difference

By doing ordinary actions efficiently you will become the best among ordinary, but you will not be an extraordinary.

I thought: This is what the living do. And I swooned at the ordinary nature of the task and myself, at my chapped hands and square palms, at the way my wrists bent and fingers...

There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from...

No point in living a life less ordinary if you don’t know what the other side looks like.

Carpe diem.Seize the day, boys.Make your lives extraordinary

We all try to camouflage the monotony, But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all the time. When we’re so much like one another anyway. Our triumphs are the same....