Uncommon Quotes - Page 2

• Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. 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

  Leadership, Wisdom, Business

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• The byline is a replacement for many other things, not the least of them money. If someone ever does a great psychological profile of journalism as a profession, what will be apparent will be the need for gratification—if not instant, then certainly relatively immediate. Reporters take sustenance from their bylines; they are a reflection of who you are, what you do, and why, to an uncommon degree, you exist. ... A journalist always wonders: If my byline disappears, have I disappeared as well?

  David Halberstam

  Reflection, Degrees, Doe

  David Halberstam (2002). “The Best and the Brightest”, p.15, Modern Library

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• Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who will work hard enough to bring them about.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Hard Work, Ideas, People

  Ashleigh Brilliant (1985). “All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts”, Brilliant Enterprises

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• People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Fall, People

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• TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Motivational, Teamwork, People

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• Common sense is very uncommon.

  Horace Greeley

  Common Sense, Common

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• Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.

  Amit Abraham

  Common Sense, Common, Virtue

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• The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.

  Eugene Ionesco

  People, Insanity, Trying

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• Uncommon thinkers reuse what common thinkers refuse

  J. R. D. Tata

  Reuse, Common, Thinker

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• Every day I wake up and that’s my goal, to be on a constant quest for knowledge and do something different, being unique and being uncommon.

  Russell Wilson

  Unique, Goal, Different

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• God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Degrees, Common

  FaceBook post by Max Lucado from Jun 28, 2011

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• Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.

  Charles Perrault

  Queens, Son, Long

  The Brothers Grimm, Yei Theodora Ozaki, Lewis Carroll, Hans Christian Andersen, Alexander Afanasiev, J. Macgowan, Madame Gabrielle de Villeneuve, Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Lang, Charles Perrault, and many others “Classic Fairy Tales: Fairy Stories Every Child Should Know”, Slavamax BVBA

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• The future belongs to the common man with uncommon determination.

  Baba Amte

  Determination, Commitment, Common

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• "I am not afeard, my Heart's-delight," resumed the Captain. "There's been most uncommon bad weather in them latitudes, there's no denyin', and they have drove and drove and been beat off, may be t'other side the world. But the ship's a good ship, and the lad's a good lad; and it ain't easy, thank the Lord," the Captain made a little bow, "to break up hearts of oak, whether they're in brigs or buzzums."

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Heart, Weather

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Dombey and SonI”, p.340, Cosimo, Inc.

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• ...In the vast majority of drug experiments, it is not uncommon for none or one or two of hundreds of patients to benefit from the drug.

  Ted Gup

  Dark, Two, Drug

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• With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land of Steady Habits combines Austen's shrewd mastery of domestic economics with Updike's compassion for the melancholy commuter to make something elegant, fresh, and brilliant.

  Maggie Shipstead

  Powerful, Disappointment, Compassion

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• 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

  Persistence, Discipline, Common Sense

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.185, John Wiley & Sons

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• Holiness does not consist in doing uncommon things, but in doing every thing with purity of heart.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Heart, Doe, Holiness

  Henry Edward Manning, Aeterna Press (2016). “Henry Edward Manning Collection [2 Books]”, p.599, Aeterna Press

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• The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better.

  John Henry Fischer

  Leadership, People, Community

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• To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a whole.

  Josef Pieper

  Mean, Special, World

  Josef Pieper (1989). “An Anthology”, p.52, Ignatius Press

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• It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

  Elihu Root

  Real, War, Patriotic

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon - if I can. I seek opportunity - not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed... It is my heritage...to think and act for myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations, and to face the world boldly and say, this I have done.

  Dean Alfange

  Dream, Men, Thinking

  Who's who in America: 43rd Edition, 1984-1985, Volume 1, (p. 42), 1984.

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• But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Money, Moon, Giving

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• Your easel is the nuclear sun of an uncommon universe.

  Robert Genn

  Nuclear, Sun, Universe

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• Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

  Robert Frost

  Book, Poetry, Common

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