Common Quotes - Page 10

there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.' - Morrie Schwartz

The leader is one who can organize the experience of the group ... and thus get the full power of the group. The leader makes the team. This is pre-eminently the leadership quality - the ability to organize all the forces there are in an enterprise and make them serve a common purpose.

The most sophisticated people I've ever known had just one thing in common: they were all in touch with their inner children.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential.

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

There are a very few consistent, common threads among the most successful NFL quarterbacks. Most of them are intangibles, which you can't measure with a physical test. You need leadership ability, competitiveness, drive, and will. You need focus, poise, and charisma.

It is a common perception that actors don’t get along.

The common-sense notion that 'there is a time and a place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.

A metallurgist is someone who can look at a platinum blonde and tell whether she's virgin material or a common ore.

I don't understand you. You don't understand me. What else do we have in common?

There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

The only thing my husband and I have in common is that we were married on the same day.

Whatever may be guru - he may be a lunatic or a common person. Once you have accepted him, he is the lord of lords.

Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.

The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

Eyes that look are common; eyes that see are rare.

As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.

You don't have to know anything about a subject as long as you use common sense and imagination, plus enthusiasm! I use all periods of design in my work, for, after all, decorative styles are simply indications of a manner of living.

Gun-control has always been an elitist method of controlling the common.

One should use common words to say uncommon things

Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.