Exceptional People Quotes

Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so. Don't condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that.

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

Throughout my years, I've had the pleasure of assembling and training what I believe to be the best group of people in the world. People with the presence of mind to deal with any flare-up, including my own. People who share the belief that nothing is impossible.

Our enlisted are the backbone of our service, are exceptionally a bright group of men women.

I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.

Star people are rare.

Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.

A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock.

There are people that are doing things that I would've never even thought possible.

When you meet people who are exceptional, you know it. I feel it straight away.

We all have a tendency to over generalize our individual experiences. After I've published something, I'll meet someone who says, "I'm Haitian, and I don't know this, so it must not be true." Even if we're talking about a work of fiction. I've gotten very angry myself reading many things about Haiti. We're not a monolithic group; no group is. Also, it's important to keep in mind the genre in which we are writing. Fiction is full of invented stories about exceptional people in exceptional situations. Those situations are not always cheery or celebratory.

If it weren't for people that stand out, this whole world would be really, really boring.

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.

If you ask me about Donna Lynne, she's one of the flat-out most talented people I've ever worked with, and I've worked with some pretty talented people.

There are millions of people who can get things done. There are very, very few people who will change the pattern in the whole field.

There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.

The thing I find about the movie industry is that 99 percent of the people are absolute scum. They're horrible people, they really are. Very nasty killer rabbits who hate movies. But the other 1 percent are really the greatest, most wonderful people in the world.

Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

I have known exceptional people who have endured severe trials while others, at least on the surface, seem to have lived charmed lives.

Most of us float with the river and there are a few people who move the river. Robert DeNiro is definitely one of them.

There are people who have incredible stories that we don't talk about. People who did amazing things, men and women who faced incredible odds, and there's nothing wrong with them being heroes for once, you know?

You're not going to see people like this again for a long time, he said and I said I always saw people like this & he looked at me for a moment and said, You're not from around here, are you?

The monsters I thought about are those that don't fit in - those who think differently from the majority, the people of exception, outsiders. I wish that society would place more importance and value on these kinds of monsters.