Source: Household Papers and Stories (1864), Ch. 10.
“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
“Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.”
Sir Hugo's Choice, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“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
Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 4 : "The Pickwick Papers"
“One should use common words to say uncommon things”
“A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.”
“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”
Folly and Female Education
What's Wrong With The World (1910)
“Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.”
Hansard http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/vo051109/debtext/51109-03.htm#51109-03_spmin10, House of Commons, 6th series, vol. 439, col. 302.
9 November 2005, responding to Charles Kennedy in the House of Commons during Prime Minister's Questions. Blair was referring to the likely defeat in Parliament of additional powers to detain terror suspects without charge, which happened later that day.
2000s
