The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.
Yukio Mishima
Related Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Believe that your life is not ordinary and never look down on what you can do to impact a life. SUNDAY ADELAJA The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinar... G.K. CHESTERTON Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss. JIM MURRAY Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions. HENRY R. LUCE Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats. BRUCE FROEMMING Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss. JAMES PATRICK MURRAY No man is ordinary, only their performances are ordinary. AMIT KALANTRI The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain pe... BERTRAND RUSSELL Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats. BRUCE FROEMMING Show me a man who plays a good game of golf and I'll show you a man who is neglecting something - Jo... JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on. JOE E. LEWIS Show me a man with both feet on the ground, and I'll show you a man who can't put on his pants. UNKNOWN You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with pro... RICHARD HUGHES The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a c... CARLOS CASTANEDA “The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as ... CARLOS CASTANEDA The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a c... CARLOS CASTENEDA His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Show me a man who though sick is happy, who though in danger is happy, who though in prison is happy... EPICTETUS For ordinary humans, someone crazy is highlighting, for ordinary crazy, someone human is highlightin... DANISH BARAKI The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL The opinions, eloquence and articulacy of the man or woman on the street can often be as invaluable ... KARL WIGGINS A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior t... WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to... LAWRENCE D. BELL Woe unto you if you have come to this world just to fear man,for man is nothing but ordinary dust wi... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man seven different ways... ALLY CARTER A hero is an ordinary human being who does the best of things in the worst of times. LEON LEYSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscri... ALEISTER CROWLEY For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, ... JOSEPH CAMPBELL A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make hi... IRVING BABBITT Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. ERICA JONG Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty, and I'll show you a man. ERICA JONG I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstan... NELSON MANDELA Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one... AUGUSTINE BIRRELL An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one pla... AUGUSTINE BIRRELL The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light. GEORGE STEINER The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father. AUSTIN O'MALLEY The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. HENRY MILLER His life was unrecorded; who is there to write down the lives of ordinary people? ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH A university training is the great ordinary means to a great but ordinary end; it aims at raising th... JOHN HENRY NEWMAN To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man ... H. L. MENCKEN Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal o... THOMAS CARLYLE Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you ... KELLY MCGILLIS I'm drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big ... SISSY SPACEK There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinki... WILLIAM HART COLERIDGE Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in
writing, provided a man would talk to... JOSEPH ADDISON He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero wh... MARIO PUZO Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. EZRA POUND Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. EZRA POUND When a poor man makes a great statement,it becomes an ordinary quote,but when a great man makes an o... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, cou... ERNEST BEVIN There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, cou... ERNEST BEVIN To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow... ANTON CHEKHOV Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may s... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing t... DALE CARNEGIE Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he pro... B. F. HARRIS Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he pr... B. F. HARRIS Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he pr... CHARLES H. SPURGEON If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest chil... WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. ERICA JONG Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The cap... H. L. WAYLAND Show me a man with beliefs & I will show you a person who can prepare the impossible dish. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Show me a man with beliefs & I will show you a person who can make the impossible possible. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the ... CHERYL STRAYED He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero wh... MARIO PUZO Show me a man that doesn’t believe in luck and I’ll show you a lucky man. RADIKALMODERATE A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. RALPH WALDO EMERSON A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. RALPH WALDO EMERSON A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer RALPH WALDO EMERSON Roetown, of mixed economy, neither boom nor bust, just ordinary times — that is, hard — had a sl... YANN MARTEL It is a big sin for man to seek help from the infinite on ordinary matters he should use his Imagina... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A man is not determined by how much he earns. You can still be the man of the house and earn less th... TREVOR NOAH Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that "he pr... B. F. HARRIS Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show yo... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff... The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential s... G. K. CHESTERTON ORDINARY AND EXTRA ORDINARY
“Excellence requires extra ordinary efforts. If you claim extra ordina... DR. SHAILESH THAKER The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sa... ERICH FROMM The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sad... ERICH FROMM A Greater Person is Someone who PLAN their OWN LIFE, or Someone Else will PLAN to Make YOU ORDINARY. RAJROCKER Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of i... DESMOND TUTU You know, and so, I've come to this belief that, if you show me a woman who can sit with a man in re... BRENé BROWN It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublim... HONORE DE BALZAC If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flatter... IDRIES SHAH Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform thi... C.G. JUNG
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