Words matter. These are the best Denominator Quotes from famous people such as Jon Taffer, Spike Lee, Guy Gavriel Kay, Mary Badham, Stewart Butterfield, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure.
I respect the audience’s intelligence a lot, and that’s why I don’t try to go for the lowest common denominator.
I don’t plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them.
If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we’d be a lot better off.
Email is the lowest common denominator. It’s the way you get communications from one person to another. There isn’t really an alternative. Sometimes people will have Facebook messenger turned on, but 99 percent of the time, if you’re sending a message to a human you don’t know well, you’re using email.
The pop culture tends to go to the lowest denominator, so cinema is in a weird place, due to its mass nature. It’s diluted down to very little: simple stories and simple politics.
I’ve never really been very good at marriage. It’s one of my failures. I’ve tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it’s something I’m doing.
There was supposedly no point showing ‘Nightbreed’ to critics because the people who see these movies don’t read reviews, in brackets, even if they can read at all! Immediately it was disqualified from serious criticism. Therefore, it had to be sold to the lowest common denominator.
One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.
When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.
We need more intellect and humor back on television, instead of the lowest common denominator of comedy – like the fart joke!
Beauty is the lowest common denominator: I don’t care what they say – every girl, every woman, wants to feel pretty and empowered and beautiful, within their own definition of beautiful. I love fashion, I love shopping, but I love beauty more because I love the science of it.
I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world – and this isn’t a negative comment on her – from the lowest common denominator. It’s not all gray to her; it’s all black and white.
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
Email has the virtue – sounds like a bad thing, but it’s the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol. Everyone can have it. It can cross organizational boundaries. No one owns it. It’s not some particular company’s platform.
The common denominator of the great women leaders in the world – Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir – is that they’re dramatically nonsexual.
If anything, ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.
The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That’s what we’re all fighting for.
Prose is admittedly an art rooted in social intercourse, and a fiction writer is faster to find a common denominator with his cell mates than a poet is.
The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.
The people of NSW should not continue to be held hostage to a lowest common denominator approach that privileges the parochial interests of small populations.
I am good at persuading people. In convincing the other, I try to start from their point of view so it’s easier for me to find a common denominator.
At the end of the day, everything I’ve been through on and off the court, I’m the only common denominator.
If your job requires that you spend a lot of time communicating with people across organizational boundaries, email is perfect. Email is the lowest common denominator, and it’s going to cross organizational boundaries really well.
I think Trump uses social media as a way to get to people’s lowest common denominator. He uses it to incite fear. He talks about simplistic ideas.
A lot of films seem to go to the lowest common denominator.
Am I attracted to people who want to give other people a voice? Yes I am, and that may be a ‘common denominator with the characters that I play.
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
I don’t view the fans in the way that most performers do. As a mass of people who have paid money, I know what they want. It’s a very, very, very, very, very low common denominator.
We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.
I think there’s a fundamental distinction between character-driven movies that are just really lovely slice-of-life movies and character-driven movies that you remember 20 or 30 years later; the common denominator with the ones you remember is that they all have some really complicated emotional problem at their core.
Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They’re trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.
What the Americans have done is refuse to back down. They’ve refused to make the cheapest, lowest common denominator forms of entertainment for TV and instead have championed television drama as an important part of our culture.
If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it’s being true to their nature… that’s what takes a long time to learn.
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.
I’m an anarchist. I’m implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.
I think network TV to a large extent has underestimated the intelligence of the American public for so many years now. It’s tried to appeal to the lowest common denominator. I think the average viewer is much more intelligent than that and crave a little more complexity and are willing to pay more attention.
I find that when I’m struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.
A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It’s not always someone else’s fault. If you’re the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn’t work out, then maybe, just maybe… it’s you!
A common denominator among big guys like me who are trying to take care of our health is that we’re not getting enough sleep.
As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study ‘Breaking Free’, He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits.
People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
The more I talk to people who are at a place I’d like to be at, whether its music or writing, or being a doctor or entrepreneur, sometimes you get lucky, and right away something happens. But for most people, the common denominator of success is just working really hard.
Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films – as if all my characters were sisters – but I’m not so sure now.
The common denominator is a love of music.
My father was – actually was an Episcopal priest as a young man. Became a psychotherapist, a psychologist. My mother is Jewish, so I grew up in a mixed background. But the common denominator was certainly music, and that was sort of emphasized in my household as music being sort of the spiritual force.
Yeah, I think the common denominator – and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 – but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.
All the leadership positions that I have had have one common denominator: none has required that I give up my science work.
What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.
