{"quotes":[{"text":"Successful people are defined as ordinary people who never gave up on their dreams and passion is the secret of that persistence!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["big-dreams","consistence","consistency","consistent","consistently","define","definition","definition-of-success","dont-give-up","dream-big","dreams","endurance","endure","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","never-give-up","normal","ordinary","ordinary-people","passion","passionate","people","persist","persistence","persistent","secret","success","successful","successful-people"],"id":40302,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.","author":"Judith Guest","tags":["judith-guest","needs","ordinary-people","people"],"id":52170,"author_id":"Judith+Guest"},{"text":"One of my greatest fears, and what might be one of the greatest obstacles to ending or putting a massive dent in extreme poverty alleviation, is this: when everyday, normal people feel as if they can't help. Let me repeat: this is a tragedy.In fact, I would say it is the ordinary people who will determine how much impact is done in the world. It's the ordinary folks who have a great responsibility. If individuals like you and me decide in our hearts to be deliberate and care for the poor, there is no doubt we can truly see the majority of extreme poverty vanish into thin air.","author":"Chris Marlow","tags":["compassion","doing-good-is-simple","extreme-poverty","ordinary-people"],"id":62079,"author_id":"Chris+Marlow"},{"text":"By doing ordinary actions efficiently you will become the best among ordinary, but you will not be an extraordinary.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["act","action","actions","best","extraordinary","extraordinary-individuals","fun","funny","funny","hero","heroes","heroism","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","motivation","motivational","motivational","ordinary","ordinary-people","philosophy","taking-action","wisdom","wisdom","wit","witty","witty"],"id":70903,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; he belonged to the category of 'much cleverer' people; though head to toe he was infected with the desire to be original. But this class of person, as we have observed above, is far less happy than the first. The difficulty is that the intelligent 'ordinary' man, even if he does imagine himself at times (and perhaps all his life) a person of genius and originality, nevertheless retains within his heart a little worm of doubt, which sometimes leads the intelligent man in the end to absolute despair. If he does yield in this belief, he is still completely poisoned with inward-driven vanity.","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["dostoyevsky","intelligence","intelligent-people","ordinary-people","the-idiot","vanity"],"id":111398,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["accept","acceptance","achieve","achievement","ego","egoism","egoist","egoistic","extraordinary","extraordinary-individuals","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","motivation","motivational","motivational","ordinary","ordinary-people","philosophy","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":125232,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"And it was only then that I realized what I had let myself in for, and only then I realized how bloody thick I had been not to have predicted it. It would seem that the combination of elements--woman, desert, camels, aloneness--hit some soft sport in this era's passionless, heartless, aching psyche. It fired the imaginations of people who seem themselves as alienated, powerless, unable to do anything about a world gone mad. And wouldn't it be my luck to pick just this combination. The reaction was totally unexpected and it was very, very weird. I was now public property. I was now a kind of symbol. I was now an object of ridicule for small-minded sexists, and I was a crazy, irresponsible adventurer (though not as crazy as I would have been had I failed). But worse than all that, I was now a mythical being who had done something courageous and outside the possibilities that ordinary people could hope for. And that was the antithesis of what I wanted to share. That anyone could do anything. If I could bumble my way across a desert, then anyone could do anything. And that was true especially for women, who have used cowardice for so long to protect themselves that it has become a habit.","author":"Robyn Davidson","tags":["cowardice","feminism","ordinary-courage","ordinary-people","women"],"id":136251,"author_id":"Robyn+Davidson"},{"text":"People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.","author":"Judith Guest","tags":["depression","emotions","feelings","judith-guest","life","ordinary-people","smile"],"id":153989,"author_id":"Judith+Guest"},{"text":"You can start from the ordinary bizzare to the extraordinary incredible.","author":"Richmond Akhigbe","tags":["inspirational","inspirational-life","inspirational-living","inspirational","life","life-lessons","life","life-and-sayings","ordinary-people","people","people-talk"],"id":165975,"author_id":"Richmond+Akhigbe"},{"text":"Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["friends","imperfection","ordinary-people"],"id":184860,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}