“See beauty in those unexpected places. (she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.) See the opportunity in what looks like inconvenience. (she steered clear of the traffic jam and went to the bakery she's been meaning to stop at.) She embraces the undeclared possibility in what seems like just another ordinary day. (her friend is scheduled for cancer surgery and suddenly everything around her seems so very precious.)” PeopleLooksSeemsOpportunityClearPossibilityOrdinaryEmbraceCancerBackgroundsNoiseUnexpectedTrafficSurgerySurfingJamInconvenienceTraffic JamBakeriesOrdinary DaysUnexpected PlacesBackground Noise Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“The opportunity for greater courage comes in the most ordinary of moments.” MomentsOpportunityGreaterOrdinaryCourageous Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.” KnowsMadeGovernmentAmericaFatherOpportunityGivenLike YouCitizensOrdinaryExtraordinaryLike MeMade ItExtraordinary ThingsOrdinary ThingsOrdinary Citizens Author:Mia Love
“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.” KindOpportunityEffortOrdinaryEmbraceShiningExcellenceExtrasEndeavorMediocrityExtra Effort Author:Ralph Marston
“Coming out of the trance of denial is painful. But crises offer us opportunities to rethink our lives. The best thing about despair is that it wakes us up. We can see the world more clearly and open to new possibilities...And we can find new joy in the ordinary.” WorldJoyOpportunityOur LivesPossibilityOffersDespairOrdinaryCrisisPainfulDenialBest ThingsComing OutTranceNew Possibilities Author:Mary Pipher
“I don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to think about things in a deep way. I think that's why there is an appetite for non-fiction - it gives people the opportunity to reexamine ordinary experience and be smarter about it.” PeopleThinkingWayGivingOpportunityFictionOrdinaryAppetiteSmarterNon FictionLimited Time Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“The meaning of geography is as much a sealed book to the person of ordinary intelligence and education as the meaning of a great cathedral would be to a backwoodsman, and yet no cathedral can be more suggestive of past history in its many architectural forms than is the land about us, with its innumerable and marvellously significant geographic forms. It makes one grieve to think of opportunity for mental enjoyment that is last because of the failure of education in this respect.” ThinkingPersonsBookWould BeLastsPastFormOpportunityLandOrdinarySignificantGrievingEnjoymentGeographyCathedralsIntelligence And Education Author:William Morris Davis
“The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.” MenOpportunityWhiteTrainingOrdinaryExtraordinaryAverageGentlemanWhite ManHog Author:W. E. B. Du Bois
“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.” IfsWorldWayLooksPersonsSeemsMotivationalOpportunityEffortAttitudeSituationPossibilityOrdinaryConsciousAdvantageLuckOpeningOne WayNew Opportunity Author:Ken Robinson
“My top priority in any trade negotiation is expanding opportunity for hardworking Americans. It's no secret that past trade deals haven't always lived up to their promise, and that's why I will only sign my name to an agreement that helps ordinary Americans get ahead, the bill put forward today would help us write those rules in a way that avoids the mistakes from our past, seizes opportunities for our future and stays true to our values.” WayWritingHelpingTodayPastValuesOpportunityNamesDealsSecretMistakeHavensPromiseOrdinaryTradeBillsPrioritiesAgreementOur FutureOur PastNegotiationExpandingStay TrueGet AheadHardworkingTop PrioritiesSeize The Opportunity Author:Barack Obama
“I always enjoyed doing monster books. Monster books gave me the opportunity to draw things out of the ordinary. Monster books were a challenge - what kind of monster would fascinate people?” PeopleKindBookOpportunityChallengesDrawsOrdinaryMonstersEnjoyed Author:Jack Kirby
“It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.” PeopleOpportunityOrdinaryExpectationsOrdinary PeopleRise AboveMilestoneSeize The Opportunity Author:Mike Huckabee
“Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.” WorldWayGivingSelfWholeFormOpportunityLevelsMeditationOrdinaryConnectionsDeeperFishingCommunionGood WayFunny Fishing Author:Ted Hughes
“Let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear but around in awareness. Let's see the beauty in everything. Let's create opportunities. Let's step out of something ordinary into something extraordinary!” LooksOpportunityStepsAwarenessOrdinaryExtraordinary Author:Angela Rockwood
“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.” PeopleJobsOpportunityProcessGrowthCan DoChallengesShapesCreatingOrdinaryEnvironmentalWorkersProtectionIntegrationOrdinary PeopleRapidsStrengtheningBetter JobsRapid GrowthEnvironmental Challenges Author:Barack Obama
“We tend to overlook the fact that a mature clean energy economy in fact will give an opportunity to ordinary people to earn more money as clean energy workers/entrepreneurs - and save more money, through conservation and energy efficiency.” PeopleGivingFactsOpportunityEnergyEconomyOrdinaryEntrepreneurCleanWorkersMatureMore MoneyEfficiencyConservationOrdinary PeopleClean EnergyEnergy Efficiency Author:Van Jones
“A story has the opportunity to enlighten us, because as we connect the extraordinary moments on film with the ordinary moments of our lives, we ask ourselves, "What am I going to do the next time I'm scared? What would it be like to say goodbye to my family for the last time?"” MomentsStoriesLastsFilmNextAsksOpportunityOur LivesOrdinaryMy FamilyExtraordinaryScaredGoodbyeLast TimeNext TimeEnlighteningSaying GoodbyeOrdinary MomentsExtraordinary Moments Author:Tom Hanks
“We need groups like the Women's March reminding elected officials that they have a responsibility to create pathways of opportunity, and if - and when - they aren't doing that, everyday people are going to put a little "extra" on their ordinary and extraordinary things will happen. At this moment, the not-so-quiet voices rumbling across the country and the world are saying we absolutely and unequivocally deserve better.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsLittlesCountryMomentsHappensOpportunityVoiceResponsibilityGroupsQuietOrdinaryDeserveExtraordinaryEverydayOfficialsExtrasMarchPathwaysRemindingExtraordinary ThingsIfs AndElected OfficialsDeserve BetterQuiet VoiceOrdinary And Extraordinary Author:Nina Turner
“Drafts of domestic legislation must be published, debated and publicly voted on, which gives ample opportunities to civil society organizations and ordinary citizens to at least understand what's being proposed and to voice and to organize opposition before the decision is made.” GivingMadeOpportunityVoiceDecisionCitizensOrdinaryOrganizationOppositionOrganizeLegislationCivil SocietyOrdinary Citizens Author:Thomas Pogge
“I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.” PersonsHas BeensTodayOpportunityOrdinaryBlessedExtraordinaryOrdinary Person Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“Interestingly, simple and ordinary experiences often provide the most important learning opportunities we ever have.” ImportantOpportunitySimpleOrdinary Author:David A. Bednar
“Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky - but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all.” FirstsEndsLyingOpportunityCommunityProductsLuckyOrdinaryAdvantageEntrepreneurCriticalMathLawyerMysteriousLegacySoftwareGroundedExceptionalInheritanceSuperstarOutliers Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —” JobsJoyTurnsOpportunityCommonGratitudeBlessingOrdinaryRoutineThanksgivingThankfulnessThankfulBeing ThankfulThankful GratitudeGratitude And AppreciationThanksgiving DayExpressing GratitudeThanksgiving And GratitudeThanksgiving ThanksThanksgiving GratitudeGratitude And ThanksThankfulness And GratitudeLove And GratitudeInspirational GratitudeThanksgiving HolidayInspirational ThanksgivingThankful ThanksgivingThanksgiving ThankfulGratitude For HelpWords Of GratitudeHappy ThanksgivingGratitude For LifeThanksgiving InspirationalThanksgiving FunnyLove ThanksgivingGrateful ThankfulThanksgiving GreetingsFunny Happy ThanksgivingGood ThanksgivingGratitude For HealthThanksgiving LoveFamily ThanksgivingThanksgiving WishesGrateful InspirationalThanksgiving And FamilyThanksgiving And LoveThankfulness For LoveHappy And GratefulThanksgiving FamilyFunny Thanksgiving DayHappy Thanksgiving WishesJoy And GratitudeHappy Thanksgiving LoveThanksgiving ThoughtsNice ThanksgivingBlessed And ThankfulGrateful HappyThankful For BlessingsHappy Thanksgiving GreetingsThanksgiving Grateful Author:William Arthur Ward
“[...] 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.” HeartMayWholeOpportunityAbilityEffortHonestOrdinaryPerfectionEndurePatientAllowingRoyalOne WordTransient Author:Frederick Douglass
“It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still less secure them the positive advantages of educational opportunity and economic security, that slowly and reluctantly, amid prophecies of moral degeneration and economic disaster, society begins to make collective provision for needs which no ordinary individual, even if he works overtime all his life, can provide himself.” IfsNeedsStillsOpportunityIndividualJusticeMoralEconomicMankindSecurityIgnoranceDiversityMassOrdinaryAdvantageSocial JusticeEducationalDisasterIncomeSecureCollectivesProphecyProvisionImmunityCholeraDegenerationEconomic SecurityTyphus Author:R. H. Tawney