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«Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.»
Author: Charles Mingus
(Composer)
| About:
Creativity
| Keywords:
commonplace, commonplaces, complicate, complicated, complicates, creativity, making, simple
«Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.»
«I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.»
«Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.»
«Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man really; a man uncertain, puzzled and in the dark like ourselves»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather
(Author)
| About:
Neighbors
| Keywords:
commonplace, conceit, disliked, puzzled, remark, uncertain
«Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| Keywords:
commonplace, commonplaces, extraordinary, great, interested, little, minds
«Such menial duties; but her wayOf looking at them lent a graceTo things the world deemed commonplace.»
«Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
| Keywords:
audience, commonplace, commonplaces, kick, kick out, kick up, members, ovation, ovations, punch, punched, punches, punching, punch in, standing, standing ovation
«Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.»
«No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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antiquity, commonplace, conceive of, daylight, gloomy, happily, native, native land, picturesque, trial
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