Uncommon Quotes - Page 5

• When we read of the great Biblical leaders, we see that it was not uncommon for God to ask them to wait, not just a day or two, but for years, until God was ready for them to act.

  Gloria Gaither

  Biblical, Years, Two

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• This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

  David Halberstam

  Soldier, Mark, Battlefields

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• Part of [having uncommon sense] is being able to tune out folly, as opposed to recognizing wisdom. If you bat away many things, you don't clutter yourself.

  Charlie Munger

  Common Sense, Bats, Tunes

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• Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Giving, Common

  Friedrich Schiller (1860). “The works of Frederick Schiller”, p.196

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• I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.

  Booker T. Washington

  Believe, Race, Done

  Booker T. Washington (2012). “Up from Slavery”, p.137, Courier Corporation

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• I talked on my blog recently about "uncommon sense." Common sense is called "common" because it reflects cultural consensus. It's common sense to get a good job and save for retirement. But I think we all also have an "uncommon sense," an individual voice that tells us what we're meant to do.

  Theodora Goss

  Retirement, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Girl, Men, Thinking

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't believe anything unless I understand it inside out. And even if I understand something, it is not uncommon that I disagree with accepted view (even if it's a Nobel laureate).

  Michael Burry

  Believe, Views, Accepted

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• My uncommon sense told me to write this book [Turn and blossom], even though I was in the middle of making final revisions to my dissertation! Common sense would have said, finish the dissertation and get a good, solid academic position. But instead, I got to do something that no one else has done, because I don't think anyone has written a book quite like this one. And look at how beautiful it is!

  Theodora Goss

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.

  Erma Bombeck

  Dream, People, Acting

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• I turned what was a wonderful case of self-reliance into a case of self-exile. Which is not uncommon, I think, in people who grow really early and have to learn how to take care of themselves. They have trouble hinging their lives with anybody else.

  Leigh Newman

  Thinking, Self, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Hale!' Kat cried, but the boy only stared at her. 'Fine,' she conceded. 'I love your boat.' 'Ship.' 'Ship ... Your ship is beautiful.

  Ally Carter

  Beautiful, Boys, Ships

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• One should use common words to say uncommon things

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Writing, Use, Common

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (illustrated)”, p.30, Full Moon Publications

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• 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

  Success, Business, Reading

  "This Is Warren Buffett's Best Investment Advice" by Chris Winfield, time.com. July 23, 2015.

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• A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

  Confucius

  Wise, Science, Men

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• No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.

  Dave Ramsey

  Men, Common, Rich

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• It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which they had raised, and to end in neglect and obscurity that life which they began in honour. To the long catalogue of the inconveniences of old age, which moral and satirical writers have so copiously displayed, may be often added the loss of fame.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Loss, Long, Age

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• 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

  Christian, Unusual, Found

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• Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Fear, People

  Adyashanti (2012). “True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness”, p.22, Sounds True

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• As two proud and independent peoples, there is much that distinguishes us one from the other, but there is also much that we share: a vast continent, with its common hardships and uncommon duties; generations of mutual respect and support, and an abiding friendship that grows ever stronger.

  Ronald Reagan

  Independent, Two, Support

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• 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

  Fashion, Unique, Men

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 05, 2013.

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• It isn't the common man at all who is important: it's the uncommon man.

  Nancy Astor

  Inspirational, Success, Men

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• My most heartfelt thank you goes to Impact Future Media and Cartoon Monkey Studio. Their dedication to the truth is very uncommon in the world we live in today. I am now, and will always be, grateful to their organizations.

  John McAfee

  Thank You, Grateful, Dedication

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• I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part of the country were designed to leave a little extra room for the brain to grow in case one day we found ourselves exposed to something we didn't understand, like a foreign language, or a salad.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Baby, Brain

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• It's necessary to know that everybody won't see it. That everybody won't join you, that everybody won't have the vision. It's necessary to know that. That a lot of people like to complain but they don't want to do anything about their situation. That you are UNCOMMON breed.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Motivational, People

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