A Quote by Chuck Jones

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.

Chuck Jones

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Chuck Jones
American - Director
September 21, 1912 - February 22, 2002

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace

Chuck Jones

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Tim O'Brien

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

Edward Weston

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Isn't that what love means, to fill ordinary, commonplace, conventional things with magic and significance, not to need the moon and white scent-heavy flowers at night?

Elizabeth Bibesco

Creativity is not simply originality and unlimited freedom. There is much more to it than that. Creativity also imposes restrictions. While it uses methods other than those of ordinary thinking, it must not be in disagreement with ordinary thinking-or rather, it must be something that, sooner or later, ordinary thinking will understand, accept, and appreciate. Otherwise the result would be bizarre, not creative.

Silvano Arieti

A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.

Chris Bohjalian

I don't feel the need for unusual or glamorous foods like caviar, and I tend more towards ordinary, satisfying food.

George Harrison

I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

Walter Lord

I love to create magic - to put something together that's so unusual, so unexpected that it blows people's heads off. Something ahead of the times. Five steps ahead of what people are thinking.

Michael Jackson

The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

Henry Adams

Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamour.

Camille Paglia

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The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.

Don DeLillo

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

You want something? Go get it with single-minded devotion.

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