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commonplaces
«Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.»
Author: Cecil Beaton
(Fashion designer, Photographer)
| Keywords:
against, assert, asserted, asserts, commonplace, commonplaces, creatures, Dare to Be Different, daring, different, imaginative, impractical, integrity, in ordinary, ordinary, play, purpose, slaves, slaving, The Creatures, the play, vision
«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
«I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time»
«The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
commonplaces, dictum, falsehoods, persecution, refute, refutes, refuting, triumphs
«To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.»
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
(Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Immortality
| Keywords:
commonplaces, creatures, divined, divines, divining, immortals
«My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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commonplaces
«Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| Keywords:
commonplace, commonplaces, extraordinary, great, interested, little, minds
«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
«To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other cheap and trivial»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Action,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
cheap, commonplace, commonplaces, compared, confer, conferring, confer with, pleasures, say something, tame, tamer, tames, tamest, taming, trivial
«The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the peo»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
aiming, commonplaces, denouncing, hazards, leave off, moralist, moralists, rekindle, rekindled