“One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to. And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse. When an individual appears mean and lazy, we are only seeing one part of the person, elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.” PeopleIfsWellsMeanPersonsI CanReasonWholeIndividualSocialWaitingSeeingInformationParticularPerspectiveCircumstancesOrdinaryAdvantagePatientLazyIntercourseTherapistsTotalityWhole PersonConcluding Author:Alan Loy McGinnis
“You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.” IfsWellsMadeSeemsWrittenOrdinaryOriginalsArrangements Author:Horace
“I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the end the reader sees, and with little reluctance, that he is not abnormal at all, and that the main character might as well be himself.” ShouldWellsLittlesEndsCharacterMightNovelSeeingReaderOrdinaryAbnormalPresent DayOrdinary LifeDay LifeReluctanceMain CharactersAbnormalityArresting Author:Patricia Highsmith
“It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.” PeopleWantWellsLooksPersonsArtFineDegreesOrdinaryCriticismOrdinary PeopleStatuesFine ArtsArts Degrees Author:Ken Livingstone
“Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.” InspirationalBelieveWellsSuccessOrdinaryPerfectionExcellenceMeaningfulUpliftingSoftballAdministrativeOrdinary ThingsFormula For SuccessMlmStriving For ExcellenceAdministrative Professionals DayOrdinary Extraordinary Author:John W. Gardner
“Phony psychics like Uri Geller have had particular success in bamboozling scientists with ordinary stage magic, because only scientists are arrogant enough to think that they always observe with rigorous and objective scrutiny, and therefore could never be so fooled while ordinary mortals know perfectly well that good performers can always find a way to trick people.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWellsEnoughMagicStageParticularOrdinaryScientistTricksObjectivesMortalsPerformersArrogantPsychicsFooledScrutinyPhony Book:The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded) Source: The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)
“Women who were housewives, who were pretty miserable ... felt inspired by her book and their life changed. They didn't become megastars, but they became a librarian or something. I've heard women say again and again when the subject of Germaine comes up: 'Well, her book changed my life for the better.' And they'll be modest women living pretty ordinary lives, but better lives.” WellsBookFeltHeardSubjectsChangedOrdinaryInspiredCome UpMiserableLife ChangingAgain And AgainModestBetter LifeLibrarianHousewifeChanged My LifeOrdinary Life Author:Germaine Greer