“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”
Charles Mingus
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Confucius
“Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?”
John Keats
“Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.”
George Carlin
“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace”
Elbert Hubbard
“To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.”
William Arthur Ward
“Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man really; a man uncertain, puzzled and in the dark like ourselves”
Willa Sibert Cather
