Uncommon Quotes - Page 3

• Organized common (or uncommon) sense -- very basic knowledge -- is an enormously powerful tool. There are huge dangers with computers. People calculate too much and think too little.

  Charlie Munger

  Powerful, Thinking, People

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• The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other into consideration, it's not uncommon for ecologists to spout absolute nonsense about economics, and vice versa.

  Charles C. Mann

  Thinking, Two, Intellectual

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• I have lost a little bit of flexibility, but the doctors say with any kind of torn ligament it is not uncommon for the injury to take 16 months to be 100 percent healed.

  Michael Chang

  Doctors, Littles, Months

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• It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today!

  John Carmack

  Cost, Benefits, Today

  Twitter post from Oct 11, 2010

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• You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate - you never stop running. It's not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that's driven by the cost of campaigning.

  Evan Bayh

  Running, Home, Years

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• Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.

  Mike Easley

  Successful, Priorities, Economy

  "Advancing Education: A Governor’s Lesson" by Michael F. Easley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2009.

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• It's not at all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as much for the next one. I don't worry about that because I try to worry about the one single part of the job I can control: the writing of the book. If I do that well, I feel, good tidings generally will follow and readers will stick with me.

  Jeff Abbott

  Jobs, Book, Writing

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• To say this sacred prayer [the Kaddish, prayer for the dead] for a Gentile is a most uncommon proceeding, but so unanimous and ardent is the feeling of the people of the New York ghetto in the present instance that Pres. William McKinley is spoken of in that quarter as "the loving brother of all of us," as one who "died a martyr to the freedom of Jew and Gentile.

  Abraham Cahan

  Brother, New York, Prayer

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• Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.

  Coventry Patmore

  Writing, Common, Century

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• The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

  Norman Angell

  Men, Common, Can Do

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• No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary people perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each person's strength to help all the other members perform.

  Peter Drucker

  Strength, Men, Organization

  "Management".

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• Bruce Katz is a spectacular talent! He's a brilliant composer and arranger who uses uncommon and unique musical intelligence to redefine jazz and blues far beyond the pale of the accepted definitions of keyboard competence. Whether on piano or organ, when you hear Bruce Katz you know it's him, unmistakably and uniquely.

  Larry Coryell

  Unique, Piano, Musical

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• The uncommon man has done the impossible and there has been that much more light in the world because of it. Children respond to heroes by thinking creatively and sometimes in breaking beyond the bounds of the impossible in their turn, and so becoming heroes themselves.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Hero, Men

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.113, Open Road Media

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• Success is uncommon and not to be enjoyed by the common man.  I'm looking for uncommon people because we want to be successful, not average.

  Tony Dungy

  Successful, Men, Nfl

  Tony Dungy (2011). “Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life”, p.47, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• You must labour to acquire that great and uncommon talent of hating with good breeding, and loving with prudence; to make no quarrel irreconcilable by silly and unnecessary indications of anger; and no friendship dangerous, in care it breaks, by a wanton, indiscreet, and unreserved confidence.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Love, Hate, Silly

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• It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.

  Mary Garden

  Karma, Hurt, Children

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• 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

  Dream, Motivation, Choices

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• Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer of American capitalism. He taught a generation how to think about business, and he showed that securities were not just tokens like the Monopoly flatiron, and that investing need not be a game of chance. It was also a logical, commonsensical enterprise, like the tangible businesses beneath. He stripped Wall Street of its mystery and rejoined it to Main Street -- a mythical or disappearing place, perhaps, but one that is comprehensible to the ordinary American.

  Roger Lowenstein

  Wall, Character, Thinking

  Roger Lowenstein (2013). “Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist”, p.425, Random House

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• On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Heroism, Normal, Sept 11

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• The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

  Samuel Johnson

  Kindness, Lost Friendship, Firsts

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.108

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• We both (Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett) insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Warren Buffet, Buffett

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• Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

  John Masefield

  Common Sense, Poetry, Mixtures

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• Teamwork is what makes common people capable of uncommon results.

  Pat Summitt

  Teamwork, People, Common

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.125, Crown Business

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• The truth is that most people have a better chance to be uncommon by effort than by natural gifts.  Anyone could give that effort in his or her chosen endeavor, but the typical person doesn't, choosing to do only enough to get by.

  Tony Dungy

  People, Giving, Effort

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• The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Men, Cooking, Common

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.583, Delphi Classics

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