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• Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the orther team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned.

  Charles Duhigg

  Team, Thinking, Champion

  Charles Duhigg (2012). “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change”, p.61, Random House

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• ...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.

  Bill Bryson

  People, Ordinary, Degrees

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• Cada cosa ordinaria de tu vida es una palabra del amor de Dios: tu casa, tu trabajo, la ropa que vistes, el aire que respiras, los alimentos que comes.... ¡las flores bajo tus pies son la cortesía del corazón de Dios lanzada sobre Ti! Todas estas cosas dicen una sola cosa: "Mira cómo te amo".

  Caryll Houselander

  Amor, Vida, Dios

  Caryll Houselander, Thomas Hoffman (2000). "Un niño en invierno: Adviento, Navidad y Epifanía con Caryll Houselander", p.38, Rowman & Littlefield

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• But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.

  Carson McCullers

  Hurt, Children, Heart

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Levantó los ojos hacia los suyos. Ambos habían salido de la miseria, pensó, y habían sobrevivido a ella. Se habían unido a través de la violencia y la tragedia, y las habían superado. Habían recorrido caminos diferentes y habían encontrado una ruta mutua. Hay cosas que perduran, pensó. Algunas cosas corrientes. Como el amor.

  Nora Roberts

  Ojo, Como Amor, Tragedia

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• You know what, the jacket’s like the car.” "“Is this a riddle?” " , "“No,” Peabody said as Eve swiped the master.","“It’s an", "ordinary thing—well, special, but a jacket, right? And the car, it’s ordinary, it even looks it. But both of them have the special inside. Cop special especially, you know? He so gets you. That’s even better than a just-because present.”", "“You’re right. He does. And it is.” Inside, Eve paused another moment. “He’s worried about me.”", [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death]

  Nora Roberts

  Car, Special, Ordinary

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• Suelo escribir sobre gente corriente y cosas corrientes, pero Paul Farmer es la persona menos corriente que he conocido... Es el líder de un pequeño grupo de personas que esperan curar un mundo enfermo, y espero que mi libro pueda ayudar en algo.

  Tracy Kidder

  Libro, Escritura, Mundo enfermo

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• It is in order to really see, to see ever deeper, ever more intensely, hence to be fully aware and alive, that I draw what the Chinese call 'The Ten Thousand Things' around me. Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

  Federico Franck

  Drawing, Order, Discipline

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• It's the ordinary things that seem important to me.

  Alex Colville

  Important, Ordinary, Seems

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• We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

  Catherine McAuley

  Ordinary, Strive, Wells

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• 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.

  Rian Johnson

  Ordinary, Fiction, Use

  "Why Looper is director Rian Johnson's best film yet". Interview with Peter Rubin, www.wired.com. September 27, 2012.

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• The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning will be stated.

  Allan Kaprow

  Real, Artist, Trying

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• End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Creating, Hot, Stories

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• Coffee is the absolute most dependably ordinary thing I could have every single day.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Coffee, Ordinary, Absolutes

  Fuente: www.vulture.com

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• There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things.

  Vincent McNabb

  Patience, Cutting, Heaven

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• A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Ordinary, May

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• A letter makes ordinary things seem important.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Important, Ordinary, Letters

  Marilynne Robinson (2014). “Lila: A Novel”, p.73, Macmillan

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• Soy una persona bastante sencilla. Llevo una vida muy sencilla con mi familia y disfruto con cosas muy corrientes.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Simple, Ordinary, My Family

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• Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage.

  Joni Mitchell

  People, Upset, Ordinary

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• I don't understand writers who feel they shouldn't have to do any of the ordinary things of life, because I think that this is necessary: one has to keep in touch with that... The ordinary action of taking a dress down to the dry cleaner's or spraying some plants infected with greenfly is a very sane and good thing to do. It brings one back, so to speak. It also brings the world back.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Thinking, Ordinary, Dresses

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• By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing all the time when they are little, but then something happens. It's not that we stop singing. I still sang. I just made sure I was alone when I did it. And I made sure I never did it accidentally. That thing we call 'bursting into song.' I believe this happens to most of us. We are still singing, but secretly and all alone.

  Lynda Barry

  Song, Believe, Kids

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• Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe. Treatle: I hadn't looked at it like that, but you're absolutely right. He's really pushed back the boundaries of ignorance. They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.

  Terry Pratchett

  Confused, Ignorance, People

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• It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes

  Oswald Chambers

  Mean, People, Ordinary

  Oswald Chambers (1994). "My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers: Features the Author's Daily Prayers", Discovery House Pub.

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• Todos los días, gente corriente hace cosas extraordinarias.

  Jim Valvano

  People, Ordinary, Extras

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• Los campeones hacen las cosas ordinarias mejor que los demás.

  Chuck Noll

  Champion, Ordinary

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