Words matter. These are the best Uncommon Quotes from famous people such as Anthony Ramos, Patrick Lencioni, Herbert Hoover, Mary Pilon, Horace Greeley, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s not uncommon to have at least one friend that you used to mess with, and it didn’t work out. But still, there’s mad love there.
Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.
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.
It’s not uncommon for some Khmer boxers to fight with dangerous frequency, sometimes as often as weekly or bi-weekly, getting up to three hundred or more fights in a career, with the length of a career varying from fighter to fighter, some engaging in bouts far past their prime.
Common sense is very uncommon.
When I was a little kid, it was not uncommon for a cousin or an uncle, before they would even say ‘Hello,’ to gush, ‘You know, your mother’s brisket is just incredible; it’s so good.’ That was an inspiration for creating a love song in that well-worn terrain of the relationship between a Jewish boy and his mother.
My observance as a practicing Muslim in the NBA is somewhat uncommon. Since joining the league in 2011, my dedication to my faith has aroused the curiosity of teammates, coaches, trainers and fans.
Heart issues, they happen to men, it’s not uncommon.
I am a boring loner. I enjoy Friday nights at home in my rocking chair with no arms, rocking and relaxing. It’s not uncommon for Netflix to be involved. Records are a possibility, but most of it is spent in silence.
It’s not an uncommon event for artists and labels to part ways – Patty Loveless, Vince Gill both did – and it often happens for the better.
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country’s ruin!
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
Kublai noticed this uncommon perception that Marco Polo has, with the idea to explain and talk about his country so vividly that he can see it.
On May 6, 2013, I started hormone replacement therapy and began transitioning. I was very depressed, which is not uncommon for people with gender dysphoria. Two hours after my first estrogen injection, my depression went away for the first time in my life.
Continue to do common things in an uncommon way. Continue to be ‘all in.’ Continue to apply ‘best is the standard.’ Continue to be a person of excellence in everything you do.
Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.
People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, they were so common it was just uncommon.
Many labourers can trace their descent from farmers or well-to-do people, and it is not uncommon to find here and there a man who believes that he is entitled to a large property in Chancery, or elsewhere, as the heir.
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
I have lost a little bit of flexibility, but the doctors say with any kind of torn ligament it is not uncommon for the injury to take 16 months to be 100 percent healed.
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.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
I’m not on social media because I feel like that would be just such another level of responsibility that I don’t feel up to. It’s not uncommon now to have personal and public intertwined, and I don’t know how people are able to manage that. I don’t know where you go when you want to be alone if everything is out there.
How many times have you seen me run into the box with the ball, dribbling past players? It’s uncommon because it’s not my game; it’s not my thing.
But when we’re helping children understand how people from different walks of life can coexist, prioritizing common ground too often obscures or erases uncommon experiences.
Portland is a permanent road course built in a beautiful state, which is for me a fantastic area for many reasons. The downside is that the weather is so unpredictable that it’s not uncommon to start the race on the dry and end with the rain as it happened to me in 1996 when I won my first Champ Car race.
Filthy abortion clinics are not uncommon, but finding out about health violations at each clinic is no easy task.
Surprisingly few outsiders know about the Cuckmere Valley, and it is not uncommon for people to confuse Alfriston with Alfreton in the Derbyshire Peak District.
Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.
The 12-hour workday is not uncommon to anyone anymore.
Well into the ’40s, it wasn’t uncommon for big-budget Hollywood movies to contain little or no underscoring, and many of today’s directors, following the lead of Martin Scorsese in ‘GoodFellas,’ accompany their films with pop records, not original music.
While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
We encounter and enter our richest, most humanly defining experiences by way of a tear in the fabric of things, because we are running late, or because we recognize, across a crowded room, a face whose lack of perfection allows a unique light to shine through and to stir us with uncommon wonder.
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.
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.
Batters are made by combining some sort of flour – usually wheat flour, though cornstarch and rice flour are not uncommon – with a liquid and optional leavening or binding ingredients, like eggs and baking powder.
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
At one stage, I didn’t have any money, so I slept on the streets for a few nights. It wasn’t uncommon in the 1950s, and it wasn’t uncommon to be out of money. There wasn’t anywhere to go to get money.
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
Foul-ups in testing are not uncommon, especially when the test setup is being tried for the first time.
It’s extremely uncommon in sports to retire and have a show about you within eight months of retiring.
One can construct a strong legal and ethical argument for minimizing the fees that are paid to world sanctioning organizations in conjunction with championship bouts. It’s not uncommon for skilled fighters to be denied championship opportunities while less-talented but better-connected boxers fight for belts.
Uncommon valor was a common virtue.
I feel like directorial teams aren’t quite as uncommon in documentary.
On the Net, the bell curve reclaims its tails. The uncommon is as accessible as the common. The very fragmentation of the Internet allows us to find ourselves in other people – and to know that we are not alone.
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.
For five albums, I would create an image of someone that wasn’t true to who they were. I’d be in love with an idea. It’s not an uncommon problem.
Publishing can be a cliquish and incestuous business; it is not uncommon for writers from the same agencies and publishers to review each other.
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
If you look back at our history, we always tend to see drivers in waves move in one direction so it’s not uncommon to have three, four or five of your top drivers exit for different reasons in a short period of time, two years, whatever it is.
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.
It is not uncommon to use a towel in afternoon matches, particularly in a place like Mohali in the month of April-May.
You now have six-year campaigns for the Senate – you never stop running. It’s not uncommon for a member of the Senate to have a fundraising breakfast, a fundraising lunch and a fundraising dinner, and then when the Senate breaks for the week to go home, more fundraisers. And that’s driven by the cost of campaigning.
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