Common Quotes - Page 8

A natural response to a natural phenomenon -that is the secret of success in business and management. You will always win if you rely on common sense.

[on what characteristics Nobel prize winning physicists had in common] I cannot think of a single one, not even intelligence.

Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles!

Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention.

Love is the common denominator that unites all people whatever religion they are.

There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the wealthiest of these foundations are joined in common purpose, they represent an unusually powerful force that is beyond the reach of democratic institutions.

It's not right to respond to terrorism by terrorizing other people. And furthermore, it's not going to help. Then you might say, "Yes, it's terrorizing people, but it's worth doing because it will end terrorism." But how much common sense does it take to know that you cannot end terrorism by indiscriminately dropping bombs?

Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Art as language....in the future there will only be art. This common language will carry the message of love.

Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.

The common denominator for success is work.

Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

Maybe we need to fall on the common-sense side of protecting these species, but continue harvesting wood products we all use and enjoy. We've got to be able to do both - protect water quality and species, as well as harvest trees.

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

Our similarities bring us to a common ground; Our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.

Common sense … has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. It seems to me that one of the principal criteria to be applied to successful science is that its results are almost always obvious retrospectively; unfortunately, they seldom are prospectively. Common sense provides a kind of ultimate validation after science has completed its work; it seldom anticipates what science is going to discover.

The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall submit. History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future.

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

I idolized Superman when I was younger. I thought he and I had a lot in common. He was always going into phonebooths and taking off all his clothes.

It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.

When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.

We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this is common sense.

I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.

There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.