"These are hard times, but they're not end times," he said, and the biggest response came when he asked the country to recognize its ordinary successes: "We work together to get things done every damn day.
While relatively little research has been done on the success ordinary investors have in trading options, analysis done for The New York Times by SigFig, a company that tracks 200,000 retail investors, showed that people who traded options last year received only about one-fifth the returns of people who did not trade options: 1.1 percent compared to 5.1 percent.
But there was nothing ordinary about her success in turning the absurdities of her life — raising chickens alongside the kids, trying to find work during the Great Depression — into books that still feel absolutely modern to today's readers.
Judged by ordinary standards of success, these folks fall short -- but for Frost they proved the gatekeepers to individuality and the crazy reassurance that comes from following one's bliss.
Its curatorial choices suggest an interest in accidental successes, ordinary people becoming online stars, but then what is "Gangnam Style" doing there?
No one is quite sure how all this "mobile commerce" will develop, but the phenomenal success of ordinary mobile phones has attracted a flood of venture capital.
If the grandeur of Greek and the glory of Latin roots aren't inspiring enough, you may have just as much success merging ordinary words together.
Meanwhile, he starred in only six films between 1979 and 1992, and after the Oscar success of "Ordinary People," in 1980, he directed just five more features: "The Milagro Beanfield War" (1988), "A River Runs Through It" (1992), "Quiz Show" (1994), "The Horse Whisperer" (1998) and "The Legend of Bagger Vance" (2000).
These documentaries covered the real life experiences of people whose lives were anything but ordinary, and owe their success to simple storytelling and fact-based research.
