“From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny. All the way through Civil War, through the great World Wars, this nation has been defended by the tradition of common ordinary folks who come from behind the plow, come from the store-clerking, come from the classrooms, and so forth to get on the battlefields - ordinary citizens turned into heroes in defense of their liberty, because that's the potential of freedom.” WorldWayHas BeensWarNationsCommonBehindsLibertyHeroCitizensOrdinaryTraditionFolksDefenseStoresTyrannyRevolutionaryWar Of The WorldsCivil WarClassroomBattlefieldsRevolutionary WarOrdinary Citizens Author:Alan Keyes
“There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft. There is great need for a rapid increase in the productivity of learning. There is, above all, great need for methods that will make the teacher effective and multiply his or her efforts and competence. Teaching is, in fact, the only traditional craft in which we have not yet fashioned the tools that make an ordinary person capable of superior performance. In this respect, teaching is far behind medicine, where the tools first became available a century or more ago.” MenNeedsFirstsPersonsFactsEffortBehindsTeacherTeachingCenturyApproachCapableOrdinaryToolsPerformancesIncreaseMethodMedicineAvailableProductivitySuperiorsTraditionalCraftsRapidsCompetenceReactionariesOrdinary PersonNew ApproachSuperior Performance Author:Peter Drucker
“I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.” IfsGivingLittlesTwoBitsBehindsKindnessLittle BitOrdinaryEverydayFancyCentsFellasTwo Cents Author:James Stewart
“I'm actually very ordinary, except people get to pay their money to come watch me work. The same way that we go to McDonald's.. we don't care about the guy behind the counter, but if he was doing something special, we'd pay our money to go watch him cook that hamburger.” PeopleIfsWayCareGuyPayBehindsWatchesSpecialOrdinaryDon't CareCooksMcdonaldsSomething SpecialHamburgersWatch Me Author:Samuel L. Jackson
“When I was 13 I told my dad I'd rather kill myself than do an ordinary job. He vaguely muttered something about how I'd need to earn a living somehow, but he's been totally behind me, forking out money he didn't really have to send me to university. Every other comedian I've met had to fight their parents to be allowed to do this but mine have been brilliant.” NeedsHas BeensJobsFightingParentBehindsMinesDadMetsOrdinaryUniversityMy DadBrilliantComedianBeing A Parent Author:Noel Fielding
“The record [American Idiot ] felt special to us, when we recorded it, with all of the artwork and the concept behind it and it being a rock opera, but we didn't really know where it was going to go. It's like I always say, you just follow the music. Not only was American Idiot a special moment for us, but it also led to Ordinary World, too.” KnowsWorldMomentsFeltBehindsRecordsSpecialRocksOrdinaryConceptsIdiotOperaArtworkSpecial MomentsOrdinary World Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“In the texts, and as His Holiness the Dalai Lama reminds us, we should check the person's behavior not when they're sitting on a big throne, but behind the scenes. How do they treat ordinary people - not the big sponsors - but just ordinary people who are of no particular importance to them.” PeopleShouldPersonsBigsBehindsParticularSceneBehaviorOrdinarySittingTreatsImportanceChecksHolinessThronesOrdinary PeopleBehind The ScenesSponsorsLamaDalai Author:Tenzin Palmo
“The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.” BigsHappensBehindsDoorsDramaQuietOrdinaryClosed DoorsBehind Closed Doors Author:Joyce Maynard
“It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk, and go to a supportive environment to deeply immerse in meditation practice.” ThinkingPowerfulBehindsPracticeEnvironmentMeditationIdentityOrdinarySupportiveConductorMeditation Practice Author:Sharon Salzberg
“You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.” ThinkingSaidTwoImportantSometimesTogetherBeautifulDiesThreeCoursesBehindsLike YouOrdinaryEmptyRoseGlassesScreensButterflyCaterpillarsYou Re BeautifulPasserby Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception, while reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.” SoulReasonJoyGriefBehindsConditionsOrdinaryHeightContemplationConceptionSublimeGlimpseExaltedOrdinary LifeLoopholes Book:ANNA KARENINA Source: ANNA KARENINA
“Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself. They do not do this because it sounds edifying, but because this is the way that human nature seems to work. We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.” WayHumansKindSelfShowsSeemsFoundSoundBehindsCreativeHuman NaturePossibilityTypeOrdinaryMythAll KindsTheologianGreat Faith Book:The Spiral Staircase Source: The Spiral Staircase
“The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to mind, and Idris thwarts it. It's what people always say. A senseless act of violence. A senseless murder. As if you could commit sensible murder.” PeopleIfsMindReasonBehindsViolenceTerribleSpringOrdinaryMurderCommitSensibleDepressingMundaneMassacresActs Of Violence Book:And the Mountains Echoed Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“Do you believe in spirits? Or ghosts?...Yes, I do. I believe in ghosts....They're the ones who haunt us. The ones who have left us behind." "Vivian has come back to the idea that the people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our ordinary moments. They're with us in the grocery store, as we turn the corner, chat with a friend. They rise up through the pavement; we absorb them through our soles." "The things that matter stay with you, seep into your skin.” PeopleBelieveIdeasMatterMomentsSpiritTurnsLeftI BelieveBehindsOur LivesOrdinarySkinsCornersI Believe InStoresGhostHauntingGroceriesThings That MatterGrocery StoresPavementOrdinary Moments Author:Christina Baker Kline