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Common sense is very uncommon. -- Horace Greeley
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. -- Booker T. Washington
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. -- George Washington Carver
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs? -- Charles Dickens
Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world. -- Jane Austen
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. -- Booker T. Washington
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. -- Joseph Addison
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. -- Aristotle
The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon. -- Angelina Jolie
Uncommon valor was a common virtue. -- Chester W. Nimitz
The common person fears to think beyond the common. -- Bryant H. McGill
TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results. -- Andrew Carnegie
For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places. -- Tim Ferriss
The endgame is an arena in which miraculous escapes are not uncommon. -- Leonid Shamkovich
Live your life with love and bravery and you shall lead a life uncommon. -- Jewel
Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue. -- Chester W. Nimitz
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living. -- Eckhart Tolle
I'm a common woman sharing common problems seeking common solutions on a journey with an uncommon Savior. -- Beth Moore
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. -- Samuel Butler
Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who will work hard enough to bring them about. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. -- Andrew Carnegie
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life. -- Warren Buffett
Uncommon thinkers reuse what common thinkers refuse -- J. R. D. Tata
Uncommon extension of the fear of death. -- Ambrose Bierce
Uncommon things must be said in common words. -- Coventry Patmore
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while. -- Ambrose Bierce
Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse. -- David Hume
Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds. -- Friedrich Schiller
The imperative need of this nation at all times is the leadership of Uncommon Men or Women. -- Herbert Hoover
Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century. -- Coventry Patmore
Uncommon solutions can always overcome problems of the most common or uncommon kind if I am sufficiently committed to overcoming them. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
Uncommon things that are attractive in women: a gap between the teeth... a unique fashion sense.... In MEN... a unique nose... or accents... -- Emmy Rossum
Humanity hungers for the uncommon. -- Michael Leunig
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness. -- Stephen King
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. -- William Ralph Inge
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way. -- Orison Swett Marden
The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage. -- Tullian Tchividjian
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. -- George Washington Carver
On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere. -- Nancy Gibbs
In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever. -- Niklaus Wirth
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin! -- Joseph Addison
It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom. -- Dee Hock
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. -- Herbert Hoover
It's a really diverse time in music, with all these different DJs and all these different categories, and we are all taking footnotes from everyone else. There are no real genre boundaries anymore; you can take a trance idea and put it into a trap record - it's not that uncommon. -- Steve Aoki
I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character. -- Vin Diesel
I'm looking for uncommon people. -- Cal Stoll
Common sense has become an uncommon virtue. -- Amit Abraham
Success is the uncommon application of common knowledge -- Ivan Misner
Sometimes you have to follow your uncommon sense. -- Theodora Goss
One should use common words to say uncommon things -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The 12-hour workday is not uncommon to anyone anymore. -- Jordana Spiro
The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense. -- Evan Esar
Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon. -- Warren Miller
Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results. -- Pat Summitt
Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe. -- Robert Genn
Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon. -- John D. Rockefeller
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books. -- Robert Frost
The future belongs to the common man with uncommon determination. -- Baba Amte
God does uncommon things through common people in common places. -- Max Lucado
Loyalty is uncommon, unconditional and uncompromising. Every winning team has it. -- Dan McCarney
Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense. -- Lewis Carroll
Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. -- Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Common sense is very uncommon. It is also shaped by your education. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. -- William Ralph Inge
It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense. -- Thomas Chalmers
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. -- Walter Bagehot
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
When you release your faith in uncommon ways, youll see God do uncommon things. -- Joel Osteen
A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace. -- Confucius
You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon -- Herb Brooks
It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man. -- Nancy Astor
It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line. -- Erma Bombeck
God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one. -- Max Lucado
In such uncommon longings, hidden in plain sight in our lives, does God call us. -- James Martin
The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook. -- Hector Hugh Munro
Earthquakes were extremely uncommon in this area. A dragon and a unicorn playing tag wasn't. -- Robert Asprin
Success is uncommon, not to be found by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people. -- Cal Stoll
It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen. -- Wayne Thiebaud
As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When you do the common things in an uncommon way, you'll command the attention of the world. -- George Washington Carver
Holiness does not consist in doing uncommon things, but in doing every thing with purity of heart. -- Henry Edward Manning
The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered. -- Samuel Johnson
The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon. -- Norman Angell
Foul-ups in testing are not uncommon, especially when the test setup is being tried for the first time. -- Henry Spencer
Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon. -- Mike Easley
Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon. -- Mike Easley
The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better. -- John Henry Fischer
The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage." -- Tullian Tchividjian
The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense. -- Bryant H. McGill
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. -- John Masefield
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A trivial thing, for a teenage boy to be colour-blind, not uncommon or noteworthy, unless it simply, unalterably, thwarted everything. -- Stephen Gregory
Foster a curiosity for the uncommon, regardless of how unpopular it is. The uncommon is where opportunity likes to hide. -- Ernie J Zelinski
No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon. -- Dave Ramsey
The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form. -- Susan Sontag
It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today! -- John Carmack
To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others. -- Tim Ferriss
Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare -- Theodore Roosevelt
This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it. -- David Halberstam
In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever." -- Niklaus Wirth
I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison -- Kim Harrison
Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence. -- Patrick Lencioni
I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian. -- David Livingstone
It's not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their warmth. -- Amy Cuddy
Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best. -- Lord Chesterfield
Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it. -- Gary W. Keller
Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon. -- Henry Thomas Buckle
Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life. -- Tryon Edwards
In the world of relationships, possibly the most complicated, uncommon, hard to find, hard to keep and most rewarding has got to be friendship. -- Lauren Bacall
We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are. -- Booker T. Washington
I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. -- Warren Buffett
I believe in the uncommon, the unusual and unlikely, even the miraculous. I believe in nearly all things except impossibilities. That I can't fathom. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy. -- Charles Dickens

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