Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.
Mama was a country woman with a whole lot of common sense. She understood what most of our neighbors didn’t – that I shouldn’t grow dependent on anyone except myself. ‘One of these days, I ain’t gonna be here,’ she kept hammering inside my head.
Have common sense and stick to the point.
It’s just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!
Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.
The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
All I can say is this: what I’m doing with children is good, solid common sense.
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
The British public are kind and generous, have buckets of common sense, and value fairness. We are known for it; other nations sometimes take the micky out of us for it.
Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want – an honest party dedicated to common sense, fiscal responsibility and limited government. If we govern to save the country, we’ll do well as a party.
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
What I say should always be prefaced with this: I’m not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what’s wrong.
Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.
We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.
I’m a common sense person who tries to analyze and I have to look at all sides of the issue because you don’t want software that only does something but doesn’t fix the other errors.
Only in the Orwellian world of double-speak employed by President Barack Obama and billionaire elitist Michael Bloomberg would nonsense be hailed as ‘common sense.’
Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.
I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense of peril, their own common sense. The one thing they cannot understand is why that same love of life, sense of peril and above all common sense, is not invariably shared among their leaders and rulers.
When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it’s not common sense yet.
I’m a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.
To me it is just common sense that we should be making apprenticeships readily available to every young person who wants to go down that route – and encouraging people to consider taking this path just as readily as we would encourage someone to look into a university degree.
Don’t ask questions you don’t want the answers to. It’s just common sense that I learned the hard way – I keep touching the fire. I’ll touch it even though you told me it’s hot, even though it’s burned me before.
Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Turning one’s back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with.
The only thing that makes me interesting as a writer is that I’m just talking common sense. The most ordinary, everyday sort of common sense.
For some people, the definition of who is and who isn’t an American defies logic, historical accuracy, common sense, decency, good manners, the milk of human kindness, enjoyment in the good things in life, and love of good food.
I think a common sense approach that provides health care coverage to all Americans is the best way forward.
Why is it that common sense is seldom common practice?
Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community.
The left has come to regard common sense – the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community – as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now.
Here’s a very simple, common sense idea – if you practice something more, you get better at it; if you can’t complete everything you need to do, take more time.
It can be frustrating that, despite widespread support for common sense gun safety measures, Congress is moving at a snail’s pace. But remember that great change takes time.
In articulating all my feelings about marriage equality, I almost don’t know where to begin. And perhaps that’s part of the problem. Why do we have to explain ourselves when it comes to issues of fairness and equality? Why is common sense not enough?
It makes common sense to be managed by results and it’s freeing to know you are in control of your own destiny. I’m so passionate about this because I have seen how merit-based judgment has helped create individual successes and yield a better system for everyone.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Common sense is often underrated.
This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.
I’ve never gotten a release from any person. I’m not a businessman; I’m on the side of common sense. Releases ruin the atmosphere of photography.
Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
Ultimately, the decision to expand Medicaid is one of common sense and necessity; the facts make it clear that it is good for state economies, good for hospitals, and good for the people who need healthcare coverage.
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
My number 1 priority is common sense, because we don’t see a lot of that in the state capitol.
Let’s not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can’t have high standards without good discipline.
If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don’t need an analyst.
Cleaning up the mess in Washington is gonna take a whole lot of Iowa common sense.
I’ve always maintained the basic business principles of keeping it simple, doing your homework, hard work, and common sense.
Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice.
Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans’ tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
Doing difficult things like passing marriage equality, passing the Dream Act, doing common sense things that allow new American immigrants to fully participate, pay their taxes, play by the rules and take care of their families. That’s the inclusive America that I believe all of us want to move to.
I know from firsthand experience that claims of non-existent voter fraud are used to raise fears, steamroll facts, and overcome common sense, resulting in laws that have nothing to do with ballot security and everything to do with voter suppression and discrimination.
I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we’ve confronted these things we’ve been able to talk them through, and I’m sure we will with this issue as well.
I believe in people. Human beings, deep down, are essentially good. Any jury can filter through whatever bull might be thrown their way and use common sense to get to the truth of a case. Juries make the right decisions, almost unfailingly, because people know right from wrong.
