Quotes of Uncommon - somelinesforyou

“ The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies. ”

- David Cronenberg

“ There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. ”

- Robert Half

“ The state is facing a unique and extraordinary set of challenges and opportunities that demand the involvement of all of us to address them. It's time for everyone to pull together to improve California's competitiveness. ”

- Carly Fiorina

“ 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 Clark Hoover

“ Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. ”

- Jean de La Fontaine

“ Three failures denotes uncommon strength. A weakling had not enough grit to fail thrice. ”

- Minna Thomas Antrim

“ When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. ”

- George Washington Carver

“ Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the very thing that makes it a unique and special place. That's just as true of the Net. ”

- Glen Raphael

“ We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. ”

- Mary Dunbar

“ There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. ”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer. ”

- Josh Billings

“ The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. ”

- Walt Disney

“ I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. ”

- Thornton Wilder

“ Things are often spoke and seldom meant. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Don't compare yourself to anyone. Be happy to be the wonder unique, very special person that you are. ”

- Susan Polis Schutz

“ Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world. ”

- Louise Brown

“ Rare as true love is, true friendship is still rarer. ”

- Unknown

“ It's routine practice. There's nothing unique or unusual about it. ”

- Richard Wright

“ A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. ”

- Walter Bagehot

“ Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice. ”

- Minna Thomas Antrim

“ When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. ”

- George Washington Carver

“ There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. ”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

“ It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Common Sense is very uncommon. ”

- Andrew Greeley

“ Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. ”

- Booker T. Washington
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