Common Denominator Quotes

• Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Dyer's Hand (1963) "Notes on the Comic"

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• If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  1978 Address to the Future Farmers of America, Kansas City, 9 Nov.

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• Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

  Nick Rahall

  Believe, Exclusion, Common

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• Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Adversity, Common, Conflict

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• I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.

  Will Self

  Psychology, Crowds, Common

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• Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

  Nick Hornby

  Football, Radio, Common

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• People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Teaching, People, Progress

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1962). “Economic development”

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• Successful men are influenced by the desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by the desire for pleasing methods and are inclined to be satisfied with such results as can be obtained by doing things they like to do. The common denominator of success - the secret of every man who has ever been successful - lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do.

  Albert L. Gray

  Success, Lying, Men

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• More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.

  Hyman Rickover

  Ambition, Limits, Common

  Hyman Rickover's address to US Naval Postgraduate School, March 16, 1954.

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• The common denominator is that we all need help.

  Judah Smith

  Needs, Helping, Common

  Judah Smith (2013). “Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human”, p.23, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Women, Anger, Common

  "The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw".

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• The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny.

  Brian Tracy

  Destiny, Men, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Mar 05, 2013

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• The common denominator for success is work.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Motivational, Common, Workplace

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• The common denominator of success is in forming the habit of doing the things that failures don't like to do.

  Albert L. Gray

  Success, Common, Habit

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• The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Ideas, Common, Bigs

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• Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.

  Abdul Kalam

  Commitment, Successful, Common

  Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari (1999). “Wings of Fire: An Autobiography”, p.90, Universities Press

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• Nothing succeeds like persistence. The common denominator of all successful people is their persistence.

  Roger Delano Hinkins

  Perseverance, Successful, Persistence

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• The one common denominator of all successful people is their hunger to push through their fears.

  Tony Robbins

  Successful, People, Common

  Playboy Interview, www.awaken.com. August 17, 2013.

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• The common denominator is a love of music.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Common, Music Love

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• To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love of the lowest common denominator to make sure no-one becomes too fine for our touted democracy. We are almost at the point of regarding every virtue as elitist.

  Florence King

  War, Mean, America

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• If you take a look at education, the kids that get good grades are said to humiliate those who don't. And what, then, do we do? Slow them down. We put obstacles in their way. We do not devise public education systems that are designed to deal with their superior learning ability. We retard it so that they don't learn any more, any faster than the lowest common denominator - and that really is the nub of it. The Democrats' equality and sameness is all going to be defined by the lowest common denominator.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Kids, Looks, Way

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Genius, Analogies, Fields

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.66, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.

  Len Goodman

  Common, Very Good, Realising

  "This much I know: Len Goodman". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2012.

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• Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its practitioners is in the instrument.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Facts, Common

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• We have a lowest-common-denominator Christianity being taught in so many denominations that has produced a people who simply do not know some of the most basic Christian truths.

  Albert Mohler

  Christian, People, Taught

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