Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

Ted Hughes

Back Being Communion Connection

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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

T. S. Eliot

Actual Business Emotions Express

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The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

Salman Rushdie

Became Denied Insult Life

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Your skills may not be anything out of the ordinary, but you can do miraculous things with what you've got. Maybe it's your parenting skills, or your compassion. It may be your curiosity, your imagination or unique style of fashion. Even if it seems to be no big deal, the lesson here is we all have unique abilities and talents.

Chris Gardner

Ability Anything Big Big Deal

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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

Loren Eiseley

Artist Frequently Frighten Great

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We will stop corruption and make the ordinary people, the weak and the vulnerable our top priority

Muhammadu Buhari

Stop Top Weak People

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You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary

Frederick Buechner

Extraordinary Way Ordinary

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If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

George Orwell

Advantage Any Appears Cannot

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On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

Charles Darwin

View Each Gain Created

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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

Virginia Woolf

Amazingly Meaning Ordinary Out

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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

Edmund Hillary

Adventuring Ordinary Person Qualities

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On matters of health and Science, once the political leadership bends towards the pressures of mythical clerics, their superstitions and conspiracy theories, the ordinary man pays the price.

Shehu Sani

Health Science Political Pressure

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An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

Patti Smith

Artist Artists Burdens Citizen

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Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.

Kenny G

Business Dreamer Good Good Song

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Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

Robert Anton Wilson

Church Earth Fables Miracles

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The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

Thomas More

Ordinary art Practice Every day More importance

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Mandela was a complex character,both the aristocrat, and royalty, and the peasant; the intellectual and the ordinary person; he was a combination of so many different characteristics, you cannot just put him into one box and say â€˜this is himâ€™.

Ahmed Kathrada

Mandela Complex Aristocrat Royalty

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Of all the electoral victories, the one dearest to my heart is the governorship result in Imo State. The ordinary people finally elected their own leader.

Ugezu J. Ugezu

Electoral Victories My heart Governorship

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I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

Aleister Crowley

Content Believe Personal devil Serve him

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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

Charles de Gaulle

Leader Aim high See big Judge

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We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small and yet really not small gifts.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We pray Big things Give thanks The ordinary

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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

William Hazlitt

Man Opinion Rules Morality

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It is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

William Makepeace Thackeray

Ordinary People Friends Care

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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Ezra Pound

Genuis Capacity Ordinary Man

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Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.

Joan Didion

Life Changes Instant Ordinary

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The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

John Fowles

Ordinary man Curse Civilization

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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

Ted Hughes

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

T. S. Eliot

The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

Salman Rushdie

Chris Gardner

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

Loren Eiseley

We will stop corruption and make the ordinary people, the weak and the vulnerable our top priority

Muhammadu Buhari

You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary

Frederick Buechner

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

George Orwell

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

Charles Darwin

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

Virginia Woolf

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

Edmund Hillary

On matters of health and Science, once the political leadership bends towards the pressures of mythical clerics, their superstitions and conspiracy theories, the ordinary man pays the price.

Shehu Sani

An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

Patti Smith

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.

Kenny G

Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

Robert Anton Wilson

The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

Thomas More

Mandela was a complex character,both the aristocrat, and royalty, and the peasant; the intellectual and the ordinary person; he was a combination of so many different characteristics, you cannot just put him into one box and say â€˜this is himâ€™.

Ahmed Kathrada

Of all the electoral victories, the one dearest to my heart is the governorship result in Imo State. The ordinary people finally elected their own leader.

Ugezu J. Ugezu

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

Aleister Crowley

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

Charles de Gaulle

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small and yet really not small gifts.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

William Hazlitt

It is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

William Makepeace Thackeray

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Ezra Pound

Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.

Joan Didion

The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

John Fowles

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