Being Extraordinary Quotes

Ain't no man can avoid being average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

you have often seen in the cinema, erich, haven't you, that between extraordinary people extraordinary things like for example extraordinary love can arise. so we only have to be extraordinary and see what happens.

I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant.

People want you to be ordinary. They don't like it when people are different. They don't like it when a man soars over their heads while they stand in the dirt. People hate you when you're special; it reminds them of everything that they aren't.

I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

When you stand out in a small town or at work, or in your peer group, whatever it is, it feels really awful. Certainly, when you're growing up, you want to be normal. You just want to fit in. Then you realize that maybe fitting in is, in some respects, quite ordinary. I think it's good to put a positive spin on being slightly unique.

Everyone's terrified of being mediocre. Everyone wants to be special.