Ordinary Things Quotes

When they told me I had to have a heart operation, my main memory is standing in my kitchen and thinking what I would really miss was my little tea towel. Not for one minute did I think, 'Oh, I'm going to really miss performing.' The things you're going to miss are your wife, your egg cup, your seat that you sit in to watch TV.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.

The three ordinary things that we often don't pay enough attention to, but which I believe are the drivers of all success, are hard work, perseverance, and basic honesty.

She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.

Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door.

I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.

We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.

Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.

In a weird way, I like to find the quirkiness in ordinary things. I like to find what is ordinary in quirky people.

Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.

If you don’t see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you’re not going to resonate very much.

Champions do ordinary things better than everyone else.

I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my writing because I'm writing about ordinary things.

Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.

An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.

The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.