Ordinary Vs Extraordinary Quotes

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment.

But we have received a sign, Edith - a mysterious sign. A miracle has happened on this farm... in the middle of the web there were the words 'Some Pig'... we have no ordinary pig." "Well", said Mrs. Zuckerman, "it seems to me you're a little off. It seems to me we have no ordinary spider.

The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me... and the more of these words I heard the smaller I always felt! But the truth is often very different... and for me to learn that ordinary me can achieve something extra-ordinary by giving that little bit extra, when everyone else gives up, meant the world to me and I really clung to it.

I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

In a way, I had such a normal life. But in another way, I saw things most kids don't see.

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.