“TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.”
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Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 4 : "The Pickwick Papers"
“The common man, he is the uncommon man”
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Baba Amte: A Vision of New India
“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
“There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”
Anonymous saying, dating back at least to its citation in Natural Theology (1836) by Thomas Chalmers, Bk. II, Ch. III : On the Strength of the Evidences for a God in the Phenomena of Visible and External Nature, § 15, where the author states: "It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense."; it has since become misattributed to particular people, including Frank Lloyd Wright.
Misattributed
“Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.”
“One should use common words to say uncommon things”
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
Source: Literary Remains, Vol. 1
“A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.”
Sir Robert Peel
Biographical Studies (1907)
“The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.”
Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 2, p. 455