Quotes About Uncommon

All geniuses are peculiarly inclined to solitude, to which they are driven as much by their difference from others as the inner wealth with which they are quipped, since among humans, among diamonds, only the uncommonly great are suited as solitaires: the ordinary ones must be set in clusters to produce any effect.

It was so extraordinarily out of the ordinary.

To be happy: the simple pursue pleasure, the common pursue riches, the uncommon pursue knowledge, and the exceptional pursue wisdom.

You will never be commonplace if you are vigilant in love.

I'm just a little bit sicker then the average individual I think.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.

I suppose there is nothing regular about my life.

I don't play a regular guy at all - never.

I'm really interested in the extraordinary found in the normal. Hopefully, my books don't take you to an entirely different place but make you look at things around you.

Some of us are special.

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

There aren't too many people like me.

Most of the time when we do a tune, Bad Blake, it's a tune no one's heard of to begin with.

Uniqueness is the commodity of glut.

I'm smart enough to know that Elizabeth had no doubt seen dozens of men leap over curbs without her falling in love with the leaper, but I do believe this: When an endeavor is special in a person's life, others discern it intuitively and appreciate it more, like the praise a child receives for a lumpy clay sculpture. And as ordinary as such an event might be, it can be instilled with uncommon power.

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common. —Satchel Paige

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

There are really no guidelines whatsoever, because this is the kind of thing that only happens to ME.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the Soul than Beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that is Great or Uncommon.

Parts like Morse don't grow on trees. He's a great character.

Life, the tomcat thought with uncommon sentiment, is not only challenging, wild sometimes, it can be tender, too. Warm and tender and good.

In Uncommon Therapy, Jay Haley

Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative process all the way through. How many actors get to do that? It's extremely rare.