"Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life."

-- Tryon Edwards

#Life Quotes #Common Sense Quotes #Sound Quotes

“Some time in the night I got up, tiptoed to my window, and looked out at my doghouse. It looked so lonely and empty sitting there in the moonlight. I could see that the door was slightly ajar. I thought of the many times I had lain in my bed and listened to the squeaking of the door as my dogs went in and out. I didn't know I was crying until I felt the tears roll down my cheeks.”
“My label in Toronto was Stand Pat and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.”
“Every piece of writing starts from what I call a grit a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.”
“My mother sang with me in her stomach; I sang with Bobbi Kris in my stomach. I believe the child starts to develop within, and whatever you read, whatever you think, whatever you do affects the child.”
“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”

Source : Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books
“Success is finding something you love to do, getting paid to do it and finding someone to share it with.”
“I know the other side. I know what awful golf is.”
“I've been doing the academic side of music and the rock side of music in conjunction, basically, since I was in fourth grade.”

Source : Interview with Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. June 5, 2006.

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