“The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.” MenWritingHumansEndsMightArtistHumanityForceCreativeClearFateAchieveHe ManCostOrdinarySubtleUrgesVehicleBiographiesGreat ArtCunningUnbornGreat ArtistYokeForces Of NatureHuman Happiness Author:Carl Jung
“Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.” DesireAchieveOrdinaryBurningBurning Desire Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin
“Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.” PeopleResultsAchieveOrdinaryExtraordinaryPermitOrdinary People Author:Michael Gerber
“Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.” MeanFailingAchieveOrdinaryAudacity Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“To achieve respectability, to be admitted to the debate, they must accept without question or inquiry the fundamental doctrine that the state is benevolent, governed by the loftiest intentions, adopting a defensive stance, not an actor in world affairs but only reacting to the crimes of others...If even the harshest of critics tacitly adopt these premises, then the ordinary person may ask, who am I to disagree?” IfsWorldMayPersonsStatesActorsAsksAcceptingAchieveCrimeOrdinaryFundamentalsIntentionCriticsAffairDebateDoctrineDisagreeInquiryPremisesStanceReactingBenevolentAdoptingRespectabilityOrdinary PersonWorld Affairs Author:Noam Chomsky
“You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.” NeedsWellsResultsEffortAchieveOrdinaryExtraordinaryEverydayEveryday Things Author:Warren Buffett
“The act of collaboration must start with dialogue. You cannot build relationships without having an understanding of your potential partners, and you cannot achieve that understanding without a special form of communication that goes beyond ordinary conversation.” FormUnderstandingAchieveSpecialCommunicationConversationOrdinaryPartnersDialogueCollaboration Author:Daniel Yankelovich
“What dance achieves, what play and sex achieve are the same thing that poetry achieves. They transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.” PlaySexAchieveOrdinaryExtraordinary Author:Jamake Highwater
“The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.” PeopleGivingLooksChildrenMadeAblePoliticalProcessRightsImpossibleSacrificeAchieveMovementWillingGiving UpOrdinaryOur ChildrenCivil RightsBotherYour ChildrenOur FutureOrdinary PeopleYour FutureCivil Rights Movement Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“Participation in the collective life of the polis both restrains the extraordinary individual and enlarges the ordinary individual, allowing him to participate in the extraordinary. An individual can achieve participatory excellence via the accomplishments of the polis and need not always be caught up in the agnostic struggle to outdo his peers.” NeedsIndividualStruggleAchieveOrdinaryExcellenceExtraordinaryCaughtAccomplishmentCollectivesAllowingPeersParticipationAgnosticCaught UpPolis Author:Rebecca Goldstein
“Ordinary people like you and me can achieve very little on their own. We need to build support. Even if you are a thought leader and have some good ideas on how to make the world better, and even if you write five or ten books - that won't have much effect unless you have people who are willing to support your ideas.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsWritingLittlesBookIdeasLeaderSupportFiveAchieveEffectsWillingLike YouTenOrdinaryGood IdeasOrdinary People Author:Thomas Pogge
“Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them.” WayNeedsPersonsStillsSoulBodySpiritSocialUnderstandingImpossibleAchieveBecomingAmbitionOrdinarySlaveryIntimateTrappedCommerceUnderstanding Each Other Book:The late Mattia Pascal Source: The late Mattia Pascal
“The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me... and the more of these words I heard the smaller I always felt! But the truth is often very different... and for me to learn that ordinary me can achieve something extra-ordinary by giving that little bit extra, when everyone else gives up, meant the world to me and I really clung to it.” IfsWorldGivingLittlesDifferentBeliefFeltBitsDifferencesHeardAchieveTruth IsSucceedGiving UpLittle BitOrdinaryBrilliantExtras Author:Bear Grylls
“For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor, the state desires best ideal perform as mediocre. No gain attention showboat. No buffoon. Best effort so occur average. Suppress climbing ego. Become ordinary. Invisible.” StatesDesireEffortAttentionRecordsAchieveHeroEgoOrdinaryGainsIdealsStriveAverageInvisibleOfficialsClimbingEpicMediocreLecturesApplauseSpotlightInstructorsBest EffortBuffoons Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.” MenArtWarWiseAchieveOrdinaryStrikesConquerSovereignArt Of WarOrdinary Man Author:Sun Tzu
“The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount, this fundamental concern is carried forward. The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance. Today the mass of the people are uninformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time.” PeopleNeedsShouldImportantReasonProblemTodayFallNationsAchieveIgnoranceMassOrdinaryConcernFundamentalsComplexesAffairProsperityEducationalCorePrimariesDeclinePrincipalRequirementsPromotionUrgentParamountUninformedUniversal Education Author:Abdu'l-Bahá
“Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.” ThinkingLooksSuccessVisionAchieveAchievementOrdinaryHatredProvokingPeers Author:Friedrich Nietzsche