“There are two kinds of success. One is the rare kind that comes to the person who has the power to do what no one else has the power to do. That is genius. But the average person who wins what we call success is not a genius. That person is a man or woman who has merely the ordinary qualities that they share with their fellows, but has developed those ordinary qualities to a more than ordinary degree.” MenKindPersonsTwoSuccessWinningQualityShareGeniusDegreesOrdinaryFellowsPerseveranceAverageAverage PersonPerserverance Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life.” PeopleDoeDifferentMatterCoursesSocialPerfectCommonDemocracySharePositionCitizensOrdinaryBackgroundsEncountersWhat MattersBumpsOrdinary LifeDifferent BackgroundsCommon Life Author:Michael Sandel
“There aren't enough professionals to solve the world's problems. There will never be enough doctors to solve the health problems of the world. There will never be enough teachers to solve the education problems of the world - illiteracy. There will never be enough missionaries to care and comfort and share the Good News. It has to be done by normal, ordinary people.” PeopleWorldDoneEnoughProblemCareTeacherShareComfortNormalNewsOrdinaryDoctorsSolveGood NewsOrdinary PeopleIlliteracyHealth Problems Author:Rick Warren
“The successful sale of British Telecom... reveals a vast and untapped yearning among ordinary people for a direct stake in the ownership of British enterprise. Investment in shares has begun to take its place, with ownership of a home and either a bank or building society deposit, as a way for ordinary people to participate in enterprise and wealth creation. We are seeing the birth of people's capitalism.” PeopleWayHomeWealthSuccessfulSeeingShareCreationBuildingBirthOrdinaryCapitalismDirectInvestmentBritishEnterpriseStakesYearningOwnershipOrdinary PeopleWealth CreationDepositsTelecom Author:Nigel Lawson
“Prayer is such an ordinary, everyday, mundane thing. Certainly, people who pray are no more saints than the rest of us. Rather, they are people who want to share a life with God, to love and be loved, to speak and to listen, to work and to be at rest in the presence of God.” PeopleWantSpeakPrayerSharePrayingOrdinaryEverydaySaintMundanePraying To GodPresence Of God Author:Roberta Bondi
“Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.” Has BeensStruggleRichShareCitizensBenefitsOrdinaryProgressivePrivilegedFree SocietyOrdinary Citizens Author:Bill Moyers
“I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair share of business prosperity. But it either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anybody can get any benefit from it.” ShareDutyOughtBenefitsOrdinaryFairsWorkersProsperityProducersConsumersEvidentFair Share Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“For example, John Law's Mississippi Company venture printed shares, and the money had gone up in smoke when it had been inscribed objects. The inscription made it magic and changed its meaning. That's how objects become charmed in The Arabian Nights, and they are often originally ordinary objects. The carpet is an ordinary, paltry object. The lamp is a rusty old lamp, and the bottles jinns are imprisoned within are old bottles. They are changed by the magic and the jinn's presence, and the jinn's presence is often embodied in the seal or inscription.” MadeLawNightCompanyGoneMagicShareExampleObjectsChangedOrdinaryMade ItSmokeBottlesVentureLampsCarpetPrintedSealsMississippiCharmedInscriptionsArabianJinnArabian Nights Author:Marina Warner
“The main thing about the character [in the Ordinary World] is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. He's having a mid-life moment, and it's a small moment, really. I think that the character actually really loves where he's at, in his life. He's just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it.” ThinkingWorldWantTryingLittlesMomentsCharacterBitsShareFiguresLittle BitOrdinaryDaughterMusic LoveSmall MomentsOrdinary World Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“There are ordinary spaces where people do, more or less, share neighbourhoods. In Haifa, there are whole communities that are more or less integrated. But of course that is with Palestinian Israelis who have, for the most part, accepted certain kinds of cooperative models, and also accept second-class citizenship.” PeopleKindWholeCertainCoursesCommunitySpaceAcceptingClassShareModelsOrdinaryAcceptedPalestinianCitizenshipIntegratedCooperativesNeighbourhoods Author:Judith Butler
“We both [with Donald Trump] share a desire to ensure that governments are working for everyone and particularly that governments are working for ordinary working families and working-class families. And I think that's important. That's what I've spoken about.” ThinkingImportantGovernmentDesireClassShareTrumpOrdinaryWorking Class Author:Theresa May
“The point is always reached after which the gods no longer share their lives with mortal men and women, they die or wither away or retire... Now that they've gone, the high drama's over. What remains is ordinary human life.” MenHumansDiesGoneShareDramaOrdinaryMen And WomenRemainsMortalsHuman LifeRetiring Author:Salman Rushdie
“That which you or I think is most unique about ourselves we hide. In ordinary discourse, in the normal state, we share our common self, our superficial self. Yet what is most unique about us is what has the greatest potential for bonding us. When we share our uniqueness, we discover the commonality in greatness that defines everyone on the planet.” ThinkingSelfStatesCommonRelationshipShareGreatnessPlanetsNormalUniqueOrdinaryUniquenessSuperficialDiscourseBondingCommonality Author:Robert E. Quinn