“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
“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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English mystery novelist and Christian apologist 1874–1936Related quotes
“Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.”
“One should use common words to say uncommon things”
“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
“TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.”
“A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.”
Source: Household Papers and Stories (1864), Ch. 10.
“The common man, he is the uncommon man”
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“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.
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