Best ordinary & effort Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary mediocrity into bright and shining excellence.”

Kind Opportunity Effort Ordinary Embrace Shining Excellence Extras Endeavor Mediocrity Extra Effort

Author:Ralph Marston

“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 myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and art is only made by an effort that is quite beyond one's ordinary everyday acceptance of things as they are.”

Knows Art Made Character Effort Situation Accepting Greater Acceptance Ordinary Art Is Strive Everyday Incline

Author:Lawren Harris

“It's simply not enough to just show up and do your work. Superior performance is not, never has been, nor will it ever be, the by-product of ordinary efforts.”

Has Beens Enough Shows Effort Products Ordinary Performances Superiors Superior Performance

Author:Gary Ryan

“The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge passivity has settled on industrial society. For people carried about in mechanical vehicles, earning their living by waiting on machines, listening much of the waking day to canned music, watching packaged movie entertainment and capsulated news, for such people it would require an exceptional degree of awareness and an especial heroism of effort to be anything but supine consumers of processed goods.”

“The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.”

Running Effort Ordinary Sells Advertising Print Yelling

Book:Average Jones

Source: Average Jones

“Of course, the entire effort is to put myself Outside the ordinary range Of what are called statistics. A hundred are killed In the outer suburbs. Well, well, I carry on.”

Wells Courses Effort Ordinary Hundred Range Statistics Suburbs

Book:New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

Source: New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender

“Two things can get people to make efforts: if people want to get something, or if they want to get rid of something. Only, in ordinary conditions, without knowledge, people do not know what they can get rid of or what they can gain.”

People Ifs Knows Want Two Effort Conditions Ordinary Gains Two Things

Author:P.D. Ouspensky

“... the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort, as walking a tightrope.”

Difficult Effort Walking Ordinary Breaths Everyday Delicate Terrific Everyday Living

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Our efforts will only be effective if ordinary citizens in other countries have confidence that the United States respects their privacy too. And the leaders of our close friends and allies deserve to know that if I want to learn what they think about an issue, I will pick up the phone and call them, rather than turning to surveillance.”

“No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was like a king-general from Britain's heroic past. His gigantic qualities set him apart from ordinary humanity; there seemed no danger he feared, no effort too great for his limitless energies.”

Country Past Humanity Energy Effort Quality Leader Danger Kings Ordinary Brave Traditional Britain Heroic Limitless Authentic Happiness Magnanimous

Book:Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life

Source: Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life

“One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.”

Ifs World Way Looks Persons Seems Motivational Opportunity Effort Attitude Situation Possibility Ordinary Conscious Advantage Luck Opening One Way New Opportunity

Author:Ken Robinson

“Organization is simply the means by which the acts of ordinary men can be made to add up to extraordinary results. To this idea of progress that does not wait on some lucky break, some chance discovery, or some rare stroke of genius, but instead is achieved through systematic, cumulative effort, the engineer has contributed brilliantly.”

“The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the organized efforts of ordinary men. Science is as old as the race, but the effective organization of science is new. Ancient science, like placer mining, was a pursuit of solitary prospectors. Nuggets of truth were found, but the total wealth of knowledge increased slowly. Modern man began to transform this world when he began to mine the hidden veins of knowledge systematically.”

“Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership.”

Thinking Enough Effort Ordinary

Author:Seth

“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.”

“Over the span of man's history, although a phenomenal amount of education, persuasion, indoctrination and incantation have been devoted to the effort, ordinary people have never been quite persuaded that toil is as agreeable as its alternatives. Thus to take increased well-being partly in the form of more goods and partly in the form of more leisure is unquestionably rational.”

People Men Wells Has Beens Form Effort Amount Ordinary Rational Alternatives Well Being Goods Leisure Devoted Toil Persuasion Ordinary People Phenomenal Indoctrination

Book:The affluent society

Source: The affluent society

“You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.”

Needs Wells Results Effort Achieve Ordinary Extraordinary Everyday Everyday Things

Author:Warren Buffett

“I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my cockney accent.”

Persons Made Wanted Lasts Loses Effort Class Middle Ordinary Middle Class Accents Cambridge Remnants Great Effort Cockneys

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“Any team can be a miracle team. The catch is that you have got to go out and work for your miracles. Effort is what ultimately separates great teams from ordinary teams.”

Effort Team Ordinary Miracle Great Team

Author:Pat Riley

“So when we come across somebody who does understand this and makes an effort to try and explain it to us, some people freak out and turn that person into either an object of worship or, some people freak out and want to kill that person. I think it's because they know what's true but they don't want to know, they don't want to face up to what that actually means. So they're going to kill the messenger and hope that by doing so they'll destroy the message so they can go back to living their ordinary life again.”

People Thinking Knows Want Trying Mean Persons Doe Faces Turns Effort Objects Worship Messages Ordinary Freak Messengers Ordinary Life

Author:Brad Warner

“The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.”

“I would imagine that anyone picking up a book written by me would expect a fast-paced story that requires minimal effort to turn the pages. The reader would also be looking for some out-of-the-ordinary revelations along the way. At the end of the day, I'm a writer who simply loves revealing stuff that is out-of-the-ordinary.”

Way Book Ends Stories Turns Stuff Effort Imagine Written Reader Pages Ordinary Revelations The End Of The Day Imagine That Revealing Fast Paced Simply Love Minimal Effort

Author:Ashwin Sanghi

“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.”

“We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep--it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself.”

Source: The Hours: A Novel

“Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.”

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Book:As A Man Thinketh And The Path Of Prosperity

Source: As A Man Thinketh And The Path Of Prosperity

“[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.”

Heart May Whole Opportunity Ability Effort Honest Ordinary Perfection Endure Patient Allowing Royal One Word Transient

Author:Frederick Douglass

“In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.”

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Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.”

“I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.”

People Ifs Giving Hard Happens Sports Effort Hard Work Giving Up Ordinary Perseverance Athlete Proof Great Things Persistence Motivational Sports Never Giving Up Ordinary People

Book:Out of the Blue

Source: Out of the Blue

“The relaxation should not be a method. You should not relax through a Yoga posture. This very understanding is relaxing, this very understanding is relaxation. You relax, effort disappears. You live your ordinary life - you chop wood and you carry water from the well and you cook food and you eat and you sleep and you love and you live ordinarily with no hankering and no desire for anything extraordinary.”

Should Wells Desire Understanding Water Sleep Effort Ordinary Yoga Method Extraordinary Woods Disappear Cooks Relax Relaxation Posture Ordinary Life Hankering

Author:Rajneesh

“If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear. People who can open to the web of life that called us into being”

People Ifs World Love Humans Life Is Effort Greater Ordinary True Love Climate Change Convinced This Life Ordinary People Healed Web Of Life

Author:Joanna Macy

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