Best ordinary & can-do Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When you've done all you can, do just a little bit more. Any extra effort you make will draw immense leverage from all the ordinary efforts which have preceded it. That can be powerful and effective.”

Littles Done Motivation Bits Can Do Powerful Effort Little Bit Draws Ordinary Extras Immense Extra Effort

Author:Ralph Marston

“I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them.”

Feels Writing Humans Stills Lying Can Do Human Beings Wonderful Poet Duty Ordinary Wonderful Things

Author:Gwendolyn Brooks

“It can do truth no service to blind the fact, known to all who have the most ordinary acquaintance with literary history, that a large portion of the noblest and most valuable moral teaching has been the work not only of men who did not know, but of men who knew and rejected the Christian faith.”

Knows Men Has Beens Facts Christian Can Do Known Moral Atheism Teaching Ordinary Blind Valuable Positive Atheism Portions Rejected Acquaintance Christian Faith

Author:John Stuart Mill

“[Ritual] dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them apart from ordinary affairs and thoughts. Rituals need not be solemn, but they are formalized, stylized, extraordinary, and artificial. In the name of ritual, we can do anything. We can do astonishing acts. In the end, ritual gives us assurance about the unification of things.”

Needs Giving Ends Reality Names Can Do Ordinary Extraordinary Affair Invisible Ritual Artificial Gestures Costumes Vocabulary Assurance Astonishing Solemn Props Scenery Unification

Author:Barbara Myerhoff

“What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.”

“The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.”

Different Can Do Citizens Ordinary Crisis Climate Average Different Things Ordinary Citizens

Author:Lawrence Bender

“Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very important social function because music can do things that mere prose, mere ordinary political agitation can't do.”

Needs Important Sometimes Political Social Can Do Ordinary Function Mere Welcome Prose Distraction Agitation

Author:Howard Zinn

“The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly insignificant . What art can do is make the extraordinary more ordinary and ordinary more extraordinary.”

People Writing Long Art Term Can Do Ordinary Extraordinary Insignificant Ordinary People Literary Terms

Author:Robert Dessaix

“Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.”

Feels Can Do Novel Emotional Periods Ordinary

Author:Alix Kates Shulman

“Liberals don't believe that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. If they promoted that, there'd be no need for liberalism.”

People Ifs Needs Believe Can Do Ordinary Extraordinary Don't Believe Liberalism Ordinary People Extraordinary Things

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

“The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was that ordinary people, when they are working together can do extraordinary things.”

People Together Can Do Community Taught Ordinary Bases Extraordinary Working Together Ordinary People Extraordinary Things Grassroots Best Education

Author:Barack Obama

“What we can do is to shape how that process of global integration proceeds, so that it's increasing opportunity for ordinary people, so that it's creating better jobs, so that we are strengthening protections for workers, so that we are addressing some of the environmental challenges that come with rapid growth.”

“Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.”

Seems Can Do Ordinary Urgent

Author:Ian Bogost

“Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.”

People I Can Play Character Can Do Ordinary Universal Reminding

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“You can build an ordinary hot dog stand or you can build a spectacular one, and you can do it sometimes without that much difference in money - if somebody thinks about it.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Can Do Differences Dog Ordinary Hot You Can Do It Spectacular Hot Dog

Author:Paula Scher

“One of the most important things we can do right now is empower ordinary working Americans who really do deserve a fair shot in this economy. But I'm not afraid to talk about any issue. But I do believe it is a distraction.”

Believe Important Can Do Economy Issues Right Now Ordinary Shots Deserve Fairs Important Things Empowering Distraction Not Afraid

Author:Keith Ellison

“Mindfulness is the ability to be aware, to note, to notice. When we apply that to our thoughts and mental habits, we bring a clarity of awareness in seeing what's just an ordinary thought and what's a judging thought that's pejorative or putting us down in some way. So, we first bring that lens of awareness, and then we can do all kinds of different strategies. We can inquire.”

Way Firsts Kind Different Can Do Ability Seeing Awareness Judging Habit Mindfulness Ordinary Strategy Notes All Kinds Clarity Our Thoughts Lenses

Author:Mark Coleman

“Iraq was only the latest in a succession of countries. Earlier, there was Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, Granada, Panama. But this time it wasn't just your ordinary brand of friendly neighborhood frenzy. It was frenzy with a purpose. It ushered in an old doctrine in a new bottle: the doctrine of preemptive strike, also known as the United States can do whatever the hell it wants, and that's official. The war against Iraq has been fought and won, and no weapons of mass destruction have been found, not even a little one.”

“It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.”

People Ifs Thinking Inspirational Success Can Do Learning Ordinary Commitment Determination Notion Openness Ordinary People Amazement Preconceived Notions Preconceived Ideas

Author:Ben Stein

“Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life's challenges.”

People Inspirational Needs Persons Doe Character Can Do Challenges Situation Approach Standards Ordinary Weak Extraordinary Temporary Ordinary People Extraordinary Things Weak People

Author:Michael Josephson

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