When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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.
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
I remember learning new words, trying to figure out what common things like cider, finding myself upset that my parents couldn't help me understand this new culture, that it was up to me to interpret for them as well as myself.