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1 " Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value. "
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
2 " When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so. "
― Agatha Christie , Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot, #19)
3 " Do ordinary things extraordinarily well. "
4 " I would like to make fun plans with you, but then just do ordinary things; or plan ordinary things but find we have stepped through a wardrobe into a world of ordinary magic. "
― Waylon H. Lewis , Things I Would Like To Do With You
5 " Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound. "
― James Joyce , Ulysses
6 " The little room was full of ordinary things that had already become precious, that I couldn't help but want to have again, to feel like whoever it was I used to be, whether it was my past or someone else's. "
― Wendy McClure , The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie
7 " the things common to all men are more important than the things peculiar to any men. Ordinary things are more valuable than extraordinary things; nay, they are more extraordinary. Man is something more awful than men; something more strange. The sense of the miracle of humanity itself should be always more vivid to us than any marvels of power, intellect, art, or civilization. The mere man on two legs, as such, should be felt as something more heartbreaking than any music and more startling than any caricature. Death is more tragic even than death by starvation. Having a nose is more comic even than having a Norman nose.This is the first principle of democracy: that the essential things in men are the things they hold in common, not the things they hold separately. And the second principle is merely this: that the political instinct or desire is one of these things which they hold in common. Falling in love is more poetical than dropping into poetry. The democratic contention is that government (helping to rule the tribe) is a thing like falling in love, and not a thing like dropping into poetry. It is not something analogous to playing the church organ, painting on vellum, discovering the North Pole (that insidious habit), looping the loop, being Astronomer Royal, and so on. For these things we do not wish a man to do at all unless he does them well. It is, on the contrary, a thing analogous to writing one's own love-letters or blowing one's own nose. These things we want a man to do for himself, even if he does them badly. "
― G.K. Chesterton , Orthodoxy
8 " We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love. "
9 " Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. "
10 " Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. "
― Jim Rohn