#uncommon

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#attention #day #every #every day #founded

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness. ↗

— Stephen King

#people #scent #small #small towns #towns

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

love is the biggest con of all ↗

— Ally Carter

#love

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. ↗

— George Washington Carver

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Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#anything #common #common things #dinner #fill

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

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In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions. ↗

— Joe Bob Briggs

#because #converse #drink #during #eat