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Letter "E" » extraordinary
«I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.»
Author: Billy Joel
(Pianist, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
age of, An Age, competent, extraordinary, incompetence
«I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. There we go beyond those limited and limiting patterns of body, emotions, volition, and understanding that have been keeping us in dry-dock. Instead we become available to our capacity for a larger life in body, mind, and spirit. In this state we know great torrents of delight.»
Author: Jean Houston
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«Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive»
«I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe.»
Author: Ken Jenkins
| About:
Science,
Success
| Keywords:
efforts, enjoyed, extraordinary, limited, namely, narrow, physical science, realm
«Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.»
Author: Philip Andrew Adams
| About:
Confidence,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
extraordinary, front, in front, risks, sit, sit in, telly, treat
«I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.»
Author: Thornton Wilder
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cases, childhood, convinced, exceptional, extraordinary, formation, formations, gifts, in one case, one form
«I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| Keywords:
claims, extraordinary, pursued, require
«Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| Keywords:
commonplace, commonplaces, extraordinary, great, interested, little, minds
«Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.»
«Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Love,
Suffering
| Keywords:
amount, explanation, extraordinary, possible worlds
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