Zitat des Tages über Allgemeine Dinge / Common Things:
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
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.
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.
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.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.