“Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.”
“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"
Source: Household Papers and Stories (1864), Ch. 10.
“One should use common words to say uncommon things”
“A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.”
“The common man, he is the uncommon man”
His constant refrain, page =4
Baba Amte: A Vision of New India
“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
From an article originally published in the February 6, 1949 issue of "This Week" Magazine, from "Addresses Upon the American Road,Volume: Volume 8: 1955-1960." Developed in speech entitled "Moral and Spiritual Recovery from War" presented October 13, 1945, at 75th Anniversary of Wilson College at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. "The Crusade Years, 1933–1955: Herbert Hoover's Lost Memoir of the New Deal Era and Its Aftermath", edited by George Nash
The Uncommon Man
“TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.”
