extraordinary quotes

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House – with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

To Sun-tzu and the ancient Chinese, doing something extraordinary had little effect without a setup of something ordinary. You had to mix the two – to fix your opponent’s expectations with some banal, ordinary maneuver, a comfortable pattern that they would then expect you to follow.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that’s what makes them extraordinary.