“Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.” PeopleKnowsGovernmentCommonResponsibilityInvolvedCommon Ground Author:Nancy Pelosi
“Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context.” KnowsWarStoriesActionSocialCommonBrainKnowledgePracticeKnow HowLearningBloodTheoryConceptsManagementBoxesIntuitionCommon SenseStreamsConsumedPizzaNeatExplicitToppingsWar StoriesBest PracticesOsmosis Book:The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems
“Look at the things around you, the immediate world around you. If you are alive, it will mean something to you, and if you care enough about photography, and if you know how to use it, you will want to photograph that meaningness. If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldWantLooksMeanEnoughUseCareCommonVisionKnow HowAliveAchievePhotographyPhotographWorthlessIf You CarePictorial Author:Paul Strand
“Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously, such assumptions are never identical from writer to writer, but they show a remarkable consistency” KnowsPersonsBookShowsCultureCommonKnownKnowledgeReaderAssumingNewspapersAssumptionRemarkableConsistencyIdentical Author:Edward Hirsch
“It makes common sense to be managed by results and it's freeing to know you are in control of your own destiny. I'm so passionate about this because I have seen how merit-based judgment has helped create individual successes and yield a better system for everyone.” KnowsIndividualResultsCommonDestinyJudgmentPassionateCommon SenseMeritYieldIndividual Success Author:Maynard Webb