#ordinary

Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#close #complications #connection #fact #fluctuations

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#healthy #idea #illness #making #man

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business. ↗

— Kenny G

#dreamer #good #good song #guy #i

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#business #covered #dissatisfaction #emotions #gradually

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#central #extraordinary #furniture #had #hearth

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#excellence #extraordinarily #ordinary #ordinary things #things

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#aim high #apart #art form #big #confines

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#am #because #best #entire #entire life

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#gain #great #great men #greatness #lose

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#common #common language #converse #equates #finds