Uncommonly Quotes

35 quotes by 28 authors

• Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable. — George Washington Carver
• Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they… — Alan Furst
• I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while… — Ron Chernow
• Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine… — Kay Redfield Jamison
• Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and,… — Alice Childress
• Our attitude can give us an uncommonly positive perspective. — John C. Maxwell
• Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can it make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and… — Moss Hart
• Doing common things uncommonly well. — Orison Swett Marden
• One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well. — Abraham Lincoln
• Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning next act.… — Barbara Kingsolver
• The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is… — Alice Miller
• The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well. — Abraham Lincoln
• You must constantly strive to enlarge your awareness. Naturally, if you do, you will have an uncommonly fine and happy life. — Frederick Lenz
• If you are a person who wants an uncommonly fine life, if you're willing to put in some time each day to do that, then… — Frederick Lenz
• You can know the secrets of life. It doesn't happen to anyone special. You just decide that you want an uncommonly fine life and you… — Frederick Lenz
• You can lead an uncommonly fine life. But it takes determination. You have to march to the beat of different drummer. You have to decide. — Frederick Lenz
• Learn to do the common things uncommonly well. — George Washington Carver
• Not uncommonly one hears some romantic young woman say, 'Oh, I would give anything to be a writer.' But she would not; and 'anything' is… — Isabel Paterson
• Keep it simple. Let's do the obvious thing -the common thing- but let's do it uncommonly well. — Leo Burnett

Who Wrote These Uncommonly Quotes

28 authors contributed a total of 35 Uncommonly Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 4 Uncommonly Quotes by Frederick Lenz
• 2 Uncommonly Quotes by Dawn French
• 2 Uncommonly Quotes by George Washington Carver
• 2 Uncommonly Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
• 1 Uncommonly Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers
• 1 Uncommonly Quote by W. Somerset Maugham
• 1 Uncommonly Quote by Carl Jung
• 1 Uncommonly Quote by Philip Pullman
• 1 Uncommonly Quote by Jane Austen
• 1 Uncommonly Quote by Augusten Burroughs
• 1 Uncommonly Quote by Lawrence Hill
• 1 Uncommonly Quote by Patrick Süskind
• 1 Uncommonly Quote by Julia Quinn
• 1 Uncommonly Quote by Henry John Heinz
• 1 Uncommonly Quote by John D. Rockefeller
• 1 Uncommonly Quote by Remus Lupin
• 1 Uncommonly Quote by Alan Furst
• 1 Uncommonly Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
• 1 Uncommonly Quote by Ron Chernow
• 1 Uncommonly Quote by Kay Redfield Jamison
• 1 Uncommonly Quote by Alice Childress
• 1 Uncommonly Quote by John C. Maxwell
• 1 Uncommonly Quote by Moss Hart
• 1 Uncommonly Quote by Orison Swett Marden
• 1 Uncommonly Quote by Barbara Kingsolver