#ordinary

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. ↗

— Ben Stein

#notions #ordinary #ordinary people #out #people

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961. ↗

— Ben Stein

#american #as far as #average #capabilities #compared

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#extraordinary #future #none #populations #projects

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#even #even now #extraordinary #guilty #i

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#i #ordinary #pretend

I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#back #come #done #ever #extraordinary

But what I do believe is that if you're a girl who was born in Homsea, a girl who lives in a nothing kind of house with an ordinary kind of family, then you can't know everything about the world and that it's probably good to keep an open mind about things, just in case. ↗

— Karen Tayleur

#family #girl #just-in-case #keep-an-open-mind #open-mind

It's perfectly normal that extraordinary things happen to me. I'm an exceptional person. Oh, don't think I'm boasting. I mean to say that, unfortunately, I'm exceptional and that, unfortunately, I can't live by the rules. I must make my own. ↗

— Cocteau

#humor #people #humor

If you want to lead an extraordinary life, find out what the ordinary do–and don't do it. ↗

— Tommy Newberry

#life #life-lessons #ordinary #self-development #success