Uncommon Quotes - Page 7

• With certain projects, there are delays, and with others, things come together very quickly. It can be frustrating but it's not uncommon, and you just have to keep a lot of things juggling and hoping all of these projects will go when all the pieces fall into place. You just have to be ready for whatever catches fire.

  Barbara Crampton

  Fall, Fire, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• The most lucrative work I have done is presenting primetime TV shows. I do not know what other people earn but a six-figure salary is not uncommon.

  Kate Thornton

  Tv Shows, People, Salary

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• What i'm trying to get at is that to me nothing felt glamorous or exciting or sexually liberating about it. I also think the amount of money you can make escorting is exaggerated (it wasn't uncommon for me to see ads for escorts for 40-60$/hr where I live.)

  Marie Calloway

  Thinking, Trying, Escorting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In tonglen practice, when we see or feel suffering, we  breathe in with the notion of completely feeling it, accepting it, and owning it. Then we breathe out, radiating compassion, lovingkindness, freshness - anything that encourages relaxation and openness.  So you're training in softening, rather than tightening, your heart. In this practice, it's not uncommon to find yourself blocked, because you come face to face with your own fear, resistance, or whatever your personal "stuckness" happens to be at that moment.

  Pema Chodron

  Heart, Compassion, Practice

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• If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour, either with common and vulgar minds, or with uncommon and eminent ones: the former would not find enough in them, the latter would find too much; they might manage to live somewhere in the middle region.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fall, Mind, Favour

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• 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

  Way, Buckets, Common

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• Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common thingsor it may actually add to the number of motives poetic and uncommon in themselves, by the imaginative creation of things that are ideal from their very birth.

  Walter Pater

  Eye, Creativity, Exercise

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• The Christmas message itself is that God chooses common people to do the most uncommon things. No matter how common you are, and no matter how simple you are, God has a plan and ability to come into our world and do something unusual.

  Max Lucado

  Simple, Our World, People

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• It's not uncommon in the entertainment world for agents to sign young talent. It's sinful that these players can't be represented by lawyers and agents when they're in school. If a player wants to hire someone to seek his value - in any other walk of life, except where this farcical entity that is the NCAA is involved - having a lawyer or agent isn't illegal. It's just the NCAA imposing its own set of rules. It's selfish on their part.

  Sonny Vaccaro

  Selfish, School, Player

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, Hate, People

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• It was a time of uncommon possibility and freedom, when Detroit created wondrous and lasting things. But life can be luminescent when it is most vulnerable.

  David Maraniss

  Detroit, Vulnerable, Possibility

  David Maraniss (2016). “Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• In dire times of survival it's not uncommon for people to turn to their faith and that was also true for the men on the oil tanker Pendleton, which was cut in half by 60-foot waves during the hurricane.

  Jim Whittaker

  Cutting, Men, Oil

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse.

  David Hume

  Expression, Style, Embellishment

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• Foster a curiosity for the uncommon, regardless of how unpopular it is. The uncommon is where opportunity likes to hide.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Opportunity, Curiosity, Likes

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• If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. So don't tell no more on 'em, Pip, and live well and die happy.

  Charles Dickens

  Live Well, Wells, Crooked

  "Tale of Two Cities".

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• It is not insignificant that my first apprehension of the love of God was granted in an experience with my father. Nor is it generally uncommon that God is apprehended in experience. Nor, in fact, can the divine and human meeting happen any other way. God is not a God of the pulpit, though the pulpit proclaim him. He is a God in and of the histories of humankind. What is significant is that I should have to say so.

  Walter Wangerin

  God, Father, Should Have

  Walter Wangerin (2003). “This Earthly Pilgrimage: Tales and Observations on the Way”

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• 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

  Common Sense, Truth Is, Knows

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.97, Oxford University Press

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• Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from. Fill your life with love and bravery, and you shall live a life uncommon.

  Jewel

  Strength, Regret, Love Life

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• Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through the door jumps in through the window.

  Mu Xin

  Doors, Fiction, Window

  Interview with Toming Jun Liu, www.wordswithoutborders.org. July 1993.

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• In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  Europe, Long, People

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• Loyalty is uncommon, unconditional
  and uncompromising. Every winning
  team has it.

  Dan McCarney

  Loyalty, Team, Winning

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• To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.

  Tim Ferriss

  Decision, Needs, Lifestyle

  "The 4-Hour Workweek". Book by Tim Ferriss, 2007.

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• Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon.

  Warren Miller

  Adventure, People, Common

  "Snowriders". Documentary, Sport, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Aggravation, Cost, Degradation

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• When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed

  Samuel Johnson

  Mean, Eye, Imagination

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.229

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