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«Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.»
Author: Cecil Beaton
(Fashion designer, Photographer)
| Keywords:
against, assert, asserted, asserts, commonplace, commonplaces, creatures, Dare to Be Different, daring, different, imaginative, impractical, integrity, in ordinary, ordinary, play, purpose, slaves, slaving, The Creatures, the play, vision
«A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.»
Author: Christopher Reeve
(Activist, Actor, Film Director)
| Keywords:
endure, finds, hero, individual, Obstacles, ordinary, overwhelm, overwhelming, overwhelms, persevere, persevered, perseveres, persevering, spite, strength
«Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.»
Author: John W. Gardner
(Secretary, Writer)
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Excellence
| Keywords:
excellence, extraordinarily, ordinary
«Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.»
Author: Ninon de Lenclos
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
across, actors, come across, larger-than-life, larger, nondescript, ordinary, stage, subjected, The Stage
«I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
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adjust, adjusted, adjusting, adjusts, disregard, disregarded, disregarding, disregards, ecstasies, ecstasy, enter, in ordinary, live in, measures, myself, ordinary, proportioned, proportions, refuse, Relationships, sense, tempo, The sense
«He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
exceptional, heard, judged, mysterious, ordinary, plain, plainer, plainest
«God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Atheism,
God
| Keywords:
atheism, convince, Miracles, ordinary, wrought
«A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
almost, days, except, ordinary, stand, succession
«Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
fulfill, mission, missions, ordinary
«A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.»
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