Best Common Denominator Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I call you my soulmate because I lost myself in you and then found myself through you. Sure, when you are gone, I will be a fraction but the common denominator has always been me.”

“A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!”

Ifs Men Different Common Faults Work Out Complaining Common Denominator Different Relationships

Author:Karrine Steffans

“The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.”

Want Fighting Common Latino Common Denominator

Author:Cristina Saralegui

“People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.”

People Stars Common Share Perspective Scientist Movie Star Common Denominator

Author:Nalini Nadkarni

“Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a democratic system, convert opinions into dogma, and kill off all opposition, even silent.”

Used Common Effort Opinion Democratic Silent Communism Opposition Diverse Dogma Primitive Common Denominator Demagoguery Anti Communism

Author:Eugen Kogon

“Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.”

Art Common Quality Democracy Achievement Chaos Common Denominator

Author:Walter Legge

“As simplistic as this may sound, commitment is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.”

May Stills Dream Sound Common Regret Commitment Consistent Separating Common Denominator Move Mountains Awaken The Giant Within

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality.”

Self Evil Individual Common Groups Mankind Lows Primaries Identification Common Denominator Transcending Aggressiveness

Author:Arthur Koestler

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

People Common Successful Succeed Perseverance Persistence Successful People Common Denominator

Author:Roger Delano Hinkins

“Even if you're not a parent, you have parents and you've been in those situations where there's a certain kind of goodbye - nothing this extreme exists, but I think that's what everyone holds onto, that common denominator that runs through this that everyone can understand.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Running Certain Parent Common Situation Extremes Goodbye Common Denominator

Author:Jonathan Nolan

“Think of it: the lowest common denominator in being digital is not your operating system, modem, or model of computer. It's a tiny piece of plastic, designed decades ago by Bell Labs' Charles Krumreich, Edwin Hardesty, and company, who thought they were making an inconspicuous plug for a few telephone handsets. Not in their wildest dreams was Registered Jack 11 - a modular connector more commonly known as the RJ-11 - meant to be plugged and unplugged so many times, by so many people, for so many reasons, all over the world.”

“Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?”

Men Common Sun Shadow Institutions Lowest Common Denominator Lowest Common Denominator

Author:Randall Jarrell

“Now, the big box office successes are superhero stories. It seems there's a lowest common denominator mentality, in terms of movies that are almost purely visual, that anyone can understand anywhere in the world. Good robot, bad robot: they fight. You don't need to know anything apart from that. And then we can make toys that look like that robot - and sell those toys or video games.”

“There is an enormous pressure placed on gay novelists because they are the only spokespeople. The novelist's first obligation is to be true to his own vision, not to be some sort of common denominator or public relations man to all gay people.”

People Men Firsts Common Vision Gay Relation Pressure Enormous Obligation Being True Novelists Gay People Public Relations Common Denominator Spokespeople

Author:Edmund White

“I always go to the lowest common denominator for that ingredient. So if I think squash, I try to think what it means to me -- and if it doesn't mean anything to me, I'm not gonna do well when I cook it. So [squash] means to me: fall, maple syrup, cinnamon, and things just come into your head so you can narrow the vortex and make it a bit smaller and you go with something because there's no time.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Wells Mean Fall Bits Common Cooks Ingredients Lowest Common Denominator Squash Vortex Maple Syrup Cinnamon Lowest Common Denominator Maple Syrup

Author:Geoffrey Zakarian

“It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not the Twentieth, and because those two Centuries haven't got a Common Denominator. They have. It's Human Nature.”

Humans Two Speak Common Century Human Nature Havens Nonsense Common Denominator

Author:Frederick Rolfe

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

Ideas Bigs Ability Common Leap Breakthrough Common Denominator

Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.”

Want Moments Common Principles Atheism Identity Positive Atheism Degenerates Common Denominator Demagoguery

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“No matter who weaves in and out of your life, regardless of the quality of those deep friendships and familyships, I'm the only common denominator at this point who's been with me the whole time. And there's this sense of trying to make sense of that ultimate solitude. It's not a negative or even a positive. It's just a fact.”

Trying Matter Whole Facts Common Quality Solitude Negative Ultimate Make Sense Common Denominator Deep Friendship

Author:Feist

“A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.”

May Children Doe Seems Young Common Method Educational Treatment Intervention Young Children Common Denominator Prognosis

Author:Temple Grandin

“Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self.”

Self Common Therapy Discovering Possessed Common Denominator

Book:Uncertain Voyage

Source: Uncertain Voyage

“The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of pressure to allow lowest common denominator development... Successful communities understand that when they say no to development that is contrary to the long-term health of their community, they will almost always get better development in its place.”

“This Western culture of ours tends to sacrifice the full range of experience to a lower common denominator that's acceptable to more people; we end up with McDonald's instead of real food, Holiday Inns instead of homes, and USA Today instead of news and cultural analysis. And we do that with the rest of our lives.”

People Real Ends Home Today Culture Common Our Lives Sacrifice News Western Range Analysis Usa Holiday Mediocrity Acceptable Mcdonalds Common Denominator Western Culture Inns Real Food

Author:Kate Bornstein

“The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.”

Art Problem Common Cases Findings Problem Solving Fractions Common Denominator Detection

Author:Elsa Barker

“The common denominator is that we have guys who are really hungry to show what they can do.”

Shows Guy Can Do Common Hungry Championship Common Denominator Nba Championships

Author:Andre Iguodala

“So much of the humor on new sitcoms plays to the lowest common denominator. Wit isn't nearly given as much attention as slipping on a banana peel. So much of the writing is so coarse, so obvious that it doesn't provide a shock, never mind a laugh. What makes something funny is alluding to it without laying it out explicitly. You let the audiences fill in the gaps and that's where the laughs come.”

Writing Mind Play Given Common Attention Audience Laughing Obvious Wit Shock Gaps Lowest Bananas Sitcom Slipping Coarse Common Denominator Lowest Common Denominator

Author:Betty White

“The idea of direct action against the evil that you want to overcome is a kind of common denominator for anarchist ideas and anarchist movements. I think one of the most important principles of anarchism is that you cannot separate means and ends. Anarchism requires means and ends to be in line with one another. I think this is in fact one of the distinguishing characteristics of anarchism.”

Thinking Want Kind Mean Important Ideas Ends Facts Action Evil Lines Common Principles Movement Direct Overcoming Characteristics Anarchism Anarchist Common Denominator Direct Action

Author:Howard Zinn

“As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study Breaking Free, He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits.”

Looks Common Study Journey Taught Habit Destructive Bible Study Common Denominator Breaking Free

Book:So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us

Source: So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us

“I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless. What is necessary are people like Karajan, [fellow recording producer John] Culshaw and me; we know not only how to achieve the best artistic results but how to attract the public and carry out the whole operation with carefully chosen collaborators. Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.”

“There are common denominators that unite all members of al-Nahda: There is no one in al-Nahda who doubts about Islam There is no one in al-Nahda that believes in extremist views of Islam.”

Believe Views Common Doubt Members Islam Als Extremist Common Denominator

Author:Rashid al-Ghannushi

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

People Common Successful Hunger Successful People Common Denominator

Author:Tony Robbins

“Militant homosexuals, pro-abortionists, occultists, New Agers, pornographers, radical feminists, atheists, paganists and a whole collection of angry anti-Christian groups are all coming out of their closets and onto the battlefield. Their common denominator is a hatred for Christianity and for any expression of traditional values.”

Source: Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God

“The thing is to be brave and move the audience with you, instead of cater to the lowest common denominator, you know, slipping on a banana peel and falling on your ass. You got to move the audience a little further ahead in terms of their appreciation of what is comedy. It's complicated.”

Knows Littles Moving Fall Term Common Audience Comedy Brave Appreciation Complicated Ass Lowest Be Brave Bananas Slipping Common Denominator Lowest Common Denominator

Author:Mel Brooks

“In organizations where nothing much happens regardless of whether you do something exceptional or just show up in the morning, the best people lose heart and motivation is reduced near the lowest common denominator.”

People Heart Shows Happens Motivation Loses Common Morning Organization Lowest Exceptional Common Denominator Lowest Common Denominator

Book:Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business

Source: Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business

“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.”

“David Shi (historian of the simple life) describes the common denominator among the various approaches to simpler living as the understanding that the making of money and the accumulation of things should not smother the purity of the soul, the life of the mind, the cohesion of the family, or the good of the society.”

Should Mind Soul Understanding Simple Common Approach Various Purity Historian Accumulation Simple Life Common Denominator Cohesion

Author:Duane Elgin

“I want to say to anyone who works in a drone workplace, raise the bar! There's no reason why you have to dress to the lowest common denominator.”

Want Reason Common Raises Dresses Bars Reason Why No Reason Workplace Lowest Drones Common Denominator Raising The Bar Lowest Common Denominator

Author:Tim Gunn

“To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.”

People Ifs Way Mean Ideas Common Emotion Share Common Denominator

Author:Agnes Varda

“Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure.”

Artist Space Common Vision Modern Photography Scientist Structure Synthesis Common Denominator

Author:Ernst Haas

“The lowest common denominator of the universe is both low and common.”

Universe Common Lows Lowest Common Denominator Lowest Common Denominator

Author:R. A. Lafferty

“I don't believe in lowest common denominators. Our focus has been on delivering value. We're rarely going to be the cheapest theater in a market. We strive to be the best.”

Believe Has Beens Values Common Focus Theater Strive Don't Believe Being The Best Lowest Delivering Common Denominator Lowest Common Denominator

Author:Gerry Lopez

“Today it's fashionable to talk about the New Economy, or the Information Economy, or the Knowledge Economy. But when I think about the imperatives of this market, I view today's economy as the Value Economy. Adding value has become more than just a sound business principle; it is both the common denominator and the competitive edge.”

Thinking Today Values Sound Views Common Principles Economy Information Edges Imperatives Fashionable Common Denominator Adding Value

Author:Arthur Levitt Jr

“America is not a nation of separation. All our citizens are Americans. The common denominator is our language. Our language is English. The glue that binds generation after generation is both our Constitution and our English language.”

America Language Nations Common Generations Citizens Constitution Separation English Language Glue Common Denominator

Author:James Traficant

“I think faith is the one common denominator between everything that goes on at the race track - a faith in Christ.”

Thinking Christ Common Race Goes On Track Common Denominator Race Track

Author:Kyle Petty

“I try to write for highest common denominator. I don't write for dumb people. I figure if everybody doesn't get it, that's OK. Someone bright enough will get it, and that's who I write for. It's probably not the way to make million-sellers. What can I say? I won't apologize for trying to write for smart people.”

People Ifs Way Writing Trying Enough Common Millions Figures Highest Smart Dumb Apologizing Smart People Sellers Common Denominator Dumb People

Author:Paul Westerberg

“If I look over my life, every single step of maturing for me, every single one, has had the exact same common denominator: accepting what was true over what I wished were true.”

Ifs Looks Common Accepting Steps Mature Common Denominator Single Step

Author:Julia Sweeney

“Segregation or separation is thus a basic principle of Biblical Law with respect to religion and morality. Every attempt to destroy this principle is an effort to reduce society to its lowest common denominator.”

Law Common Effort Principles Morality Separation Biblical Lowest Segregation Common Denominator Basic Principles Lowest Common Denominator

Author:R.J. Rushdoony

“Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.”

People Trying Stories Common Good Story Common Denominator

Author:Frank Spotnitz

“For however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable I.”

Common Records Common Denominator

Book:We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction

Source: We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction

“When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.”

Want Needs Seems Kids Form Common Audience Comedian Lacking Validation Common Denominator

Author:Ray Romano

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