#uncommon

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life. ↗

— Dawn French

#beautiful #father #his #i #life

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life. ↗

— Mary Garden

#because #being #child #children #his way

Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense. ↗

— Charles Perrault

#birth #common good #disputed #fairy #form

Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#uniqueness #imagination

Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#advice #community #ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha #inspirational #law

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#common thing #common way #excellence #thing #uncommon

Common sense is very uncommon. ↗

— Horace Greeley

#common sense #sense #uncommon #very

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom. ↗

— Dee Hock

#also #different #employ #essential #humility

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#constitutional #general #man #opinions #statesman