Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
quote by Booker T. Washington
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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.
quote by Herbert Hoover
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It is a curious fact that when we get sick we want an uncommon doctor... When we get into a war, we dreadfully want an uncommon admiral and an uncommon general. Only when we get into politics are we content with the common man.
quote by Herbert Clark Hoover
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The uncommon to be common
There are exceptions to rules.
When exceptions exceeds in use,
Rules relegate to exceptions
And exceptions stay as rules.
The uncommon one frequenting,
The common one is replaced
By the uncommon to be common.
Marriage is soon to be uncommon.
25.09.2010
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Fundamental of Liar Chapter CXV: Common Thing
It’s not a kindness of heart
It’s not strong solidarity
It’s just a common thing
It’s not local wisdom
It’s not old tradition
It’s just a common thing
It’s not call of duty
It’s not sense of right
It’s just a common thing
It’s not formal greeting
It’s not automatic response
It’s just a common thing
It’s not a matter of guessing
It’s not a part of instinct
It’s just a common thing
It’s not natural reaction
It’s not act of compassion
It’s just a common thing
It’s not regular news
It’s not lack of awareness
It’s just a common thing
It’s not general knowledge
It’s not piece of memory
It’s just a common thing
It’s not statistic range
It’s not operational standard
It’s just a common thing
It’s not moral excuses
It’s not people ignorance
It’s just a common thing
It’s not public secret
It’s not rhetoric question
It’s just a common thing
It’s not different mindset
It’s not basic solution
It’s just a common thing
It’s not absolute law
It’s not blind obedience
It’s just a common thing
It’s not sweet revenge
It’s not getting even
It’s just a common thing
It’s not constant worry
It’s not planted fear
It’s just a common thing
It’s not usual bickering
It’s not daily fight
It’s just a common thing
It’s not die hard habit
It’s not strange behavior
It’s just a common thing
poem by Maria Sudibyo
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Freedom Is Won By...
Freedom
is won
by common
people
with sudden
instantaneous
veneration
sacred sacrifice
uncommon
courage
uncommon
passion
hero lineage.
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
See also the poem ‘A Saga Of Freedom Complete’.
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Consistent Excellence
Go...
Ask anyone of your neighbors,
How difficult it is...
To produce consistent excellence.
With a doing done you do,
To ensure your life...
Is lived to make sense.
With the best from yourself,
To show those your excellence...
Is not some luck that has been sent.
Your excellence is what is meant.
Go...
Ask anyone of your neighbors,
And when you are done...
Ask your friends and family too,
If consistent excellence with a bit of sweat...
Is something done you know they do,
For themselves.
And nothing from them to you to prove.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Common sense is very uncommon.
quote by Horace Greeley
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Common sense is very uncommon with a lot of people.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
quote by Frank Lloyd Wright
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Rose
Rose; who's rising my rose
the paradise is your name
your other name
but you have an other
you have a common name
they call you in common way
by common name
but I call you my Rose
the paradise
You maybe my love
in there eyes
you maybe a common
but in mine
you are uncommon
you are the Paradise
and you are
rising a garden of rose
for my love
you my rose
What gain or what lost
let it take what it takes
just I need you my Rose
let they say what thy says
just I need your smile
just I need you
when I am staying
or when i am away
just i need you
i need you
my ROSE.
poem by Sallam Yassin
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Of the Marines on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
quote by Chester W. Nimitz
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The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
quote by Norman Angell
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The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
quote by Walter Bagehot
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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
quote by Orison Swett Marden
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Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.
quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
quote by George Washington Carver
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When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
quote by George Washington Carver
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.