“One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to. And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse. When an individual appears mean and lazy, we are only seeing one part of the person, elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.” PeopleIfsWellsMeanPersonsI CanReasonWholeIndividualSocialWaitingSeeingInformationParticularPerspectiveCircumstancesOrdinaryAdvantagePatientLazyIntercourseTherapistsTotalityWhole PersonConcluding Author:Alan Loy McGinnis
“There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.” PeopleMenTryingHas BeensStoriesPoliticalNumbersEventsCircumstancesTerribleOrdinaryUniversalCaughtThemeMidstCaught UpOrdinary PeopleSierraSierra Leone Author:Edward Zwick
“I feel I`ve always been on the outside and always on the edge of an abyss. The women I portray, and the woman I am, are ordinary but maybe find themselves in extra-ordinary circumstances, and what they do is at great cost.” FeelsCircumstancesCostOrdinaryEdgesExtrasAbyss Author:Susan Sarandon
“Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.” ArtJobsLeftCircumstancesStandardsOrdinaryDisappearLeft Alone Author:Michael Kimmelman
“Individuals possessing moderate-sized brains easily find their proper sphere, and enjoy in it scope for all their energy. In ordinary circumstances they distinguish themselves, but they sink when difficulties accumulate around them. Persons with large brains, on the other hand, do not readily attain their appropriate place; common occurrences do not rouse or call them forth.” PersonsHandsIndividualEnergyEnjoyCommonBrainCircumstancesOrdinaryDifficultyAppropriateSpheresScopeModeratesPossessing Book:A System of Phrenology Source: A System of Phrenology
“There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.” MenDealsHistoryMilitaryCircumstancesOrdinaryExtraordinaryNavyTrue HappinessOrdinary Man Author:William Halsey
“We must remember when we speak of the "negativism" of the toddler that this is also the child who is intoxicated with the discoveries of the second year, a joyful child who is firmly bound to his parents and his new-found world through ties of love. The so-called negativism is one of the aspects of this development, but under ordinary circumstances it does not become anarchy. It's a kind of declaration of independence, but there is no intention to unseat the government.” WorldYearsKindChildrenDoeGovernmentRememberFoundSpeakParentDevelopmentCircumstancesOrdinaryDiscoveryAspectIndependenceIntentionBoundsTiesAnarchyJoyfulDeclarationRemember WhenDeclaration Of IndependenceToddlerIntoxicatedTies Of Love Author:Selma Fraiberg
“In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment.” SelfCircumstancesConversationOrdinaryAccountsEmploymentResolutionSecularExaminationSolemnitySelf-examination Book:Readings for every day in Lent Source: Readings for every day in Lent
“Or is anyone's identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?” MatterTogetherFictionIdentityCircumstancesOrdinaryNarrativeFragmentsConvenient Author:Ann Leckie
“I think that under ordinary circumstances (i.e., neither person is famous), it's already hard enough to make a long-term romantic relationship work, but add fame to the calculus.” ThinkingPersonsLongHardEnoughTermCircumstancesFameOrdinaryAddLong TermCalculusRomantic Relationship Author:Christine Sneed
“I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves.” PeopleThinkingCircumstancesLimitsOrdinaryExtraordinaryOrdinary People Author:Jodi Picoult
“I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.” MenLeaderCircumstancesOrdinaryExtraordinaryFulfillmentMessiahSelf ActualizationOrdinary Man Author:Nelson Mandela
“The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.” HumansIdeasEnoughChristianDesireDiesAsksCircumstancesOrdinaryIdeologyVulnerable Author:Kathleen Norris
“It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls’ most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.” BelieveSoulArtistHumanityStarsSkyWorstGreatnessProduceCircumstancesOrdinaryAdversitySurfaceAwakeningCanvasSublime Author:Richard Paul Evans