59 Uncommon Quotes for You to Enjoy

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. George Washington Carver

Life You World Will Way Uncommon Attention Command Common Common Things Things

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

Life Success Day Small Things Every Day Every Rather Small Uncommon Attention Remote Than Us Large Founded Nearest Things

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

Religion Other Apprehensive Side Consider Tyrant Ruler Easily Must Uncommon He Put Devotion Him His Hand Subjects Pious Gods Move Against Less Illegal Appearance Whom Believing Treatment

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

Politics War Man Construction Doctor Engineer Job Satisfied Sick General Only Uncommon Get Common Want Common Man

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

Success Persistence Discipline Matter Sense Embracing Rather Uncommon Sophisticated Mastering Common Subtle Common Sense Success Is Theory Levels

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while. Ambrose Bierce

Patience Revenge Worth Meekness Uncommon While Planning

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wisdom World Degree Sense Uncommon Calls Common Common Sense

I was born into a Turkish family that had acquired Italian citizenship. Many members of the family subsequently became British, French, Brazilian, and German, so there was a bit of everything. It was not uncommon for people in the family to speak seven languages: English, French, Ladino, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, and even Greek. Andre Aciman

Family People Speak Seven Everything Bit Members Arabic Citizenship Born Uncommon Had French Became Italian German Greek Subsequently Brazilian Turkish Acquired Languages English Many Even British

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

Virtue Valor Uncommon Common

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

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

Soul Before Imagination Everything Pleasure Possessed Gives Uncommon Idea New Because Surprise Curiosity Which Agreeable Fills Raises

LOL is rarely OL, or even really L. A real out-loud laugh - not the forced social variety, which is closer to barking than laughing - is uncommon among adults. Mary Roach

Laugh Laughing Rarely Variety Uncommon Adult Forced Real Than Closer Which Social Really Barking Even Among

I think in the case of my father, in terms of the things that influenced me, he never pressed me to go into academics or pressed me to go to a field, and indeed, my behavior was largely to move as far the other direction. I don't think that's uncommon with people with very successful parents. Robert C. Merton

Me People Behavior Father Parents Field Think Other Indeed Pressed Case Direction Uncommon Never He Academics Terms Go Very Move Influenced Far Successful Largely Things

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

I believe in the goodness of man, and I believe we're all connected and that connection is through God. We have our differences. But if we will recognize that we like each other, that we are more common than uncommon, we will work toward what needs to be done to reconcile that. Corbin Bernsen

Work God Needs Man Will Goodness Differences Believe Other Our Recognize Reconcile More Through Uncommon Toward Like Than Done Common Connected Connection Each

Limit Hold'em is the game for you if you bore easily and crave fast action. Conversely, in No Limit, the game will often slow to a halt when someone is faced with a big decision. That's uncommon in Limit games because all-in bets are rare. Daniel Negreanu

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

War Peace People Enthusiasm Every Nerve See Uncommon Over Wrongs Real Governments Times Modern Represent Patriotic Modern Times Fancied Them Urging Forward Resentment Keep Whom

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