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Common Things Quotes
The ordinary details that shape a life or a story.
These quotes examine how common things can quietly carry meaning, warning that even higher truths become unbelievable once reduced to something too familiar. Related craft reflections appear under Best quotes.
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The higher truths are, the more cautious one must be with them; otherwise, they are converted into common things, and common things are not believed.
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Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon.
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I tell people: walk around for one month and write down three problems in your life every day. At first it's easy - you got stuck in traffic, you missed your alarm - but by the end of the month you're looking really hard to get your 90 problems. The most common things on your list are now billion-dollar businesses.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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