Seeing the Extraordinary in the Ordinary Quotes

I have always tried to live by the 'awe principle.' That is: Can I find awe, wonder and enchantment in the most mundane things conceivable?

I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

I like examining the ordinary, and by doing so, one hopefully reveals the extraordinary nature within.

Miracles are happening every day. I do think that's true. If you can take the time to look. It took me a while to learn that, though some children know it instinctively and they do have wonder when they are kids. But the trouble is, as we grow older, we lose it.

My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.

It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

People will notice the beauty of what they usually ignore ~

To a poet nothing can be useless.

Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.

It's a constant, continuous, spectacular world we live in, and every day you see things that just knock you out, if you pay attention.