“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor
“Fiction means the common things as seen by the uncommon people. Fairy tales mean the uncommon things as seen by the common people.”
Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 4 : "The Pickwick Papers"
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“Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.”
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“There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)
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.
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