A Quote by Sam Abell

The unusual wins out over the usual.

Sam Abell

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Out Over Unusual Usual Wins

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Sam Abell
American - Photographer
Born: 1945

We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.

Beaumont Newhall

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

William Allen White

I think, ultimately, open always wins out. It wins out because you cannot lock data in; you can't lock people in. They will find a way out.

Ram Shriram

The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less work, when it's a fair fight in the marketplace.

Adam Davidson

When women live rich, in every sense of the word - financially, emotionally, physically, and spiritually - everyone wins: you win, your family wins, your community wins, and the world wins.

Marie Forleo

Presence always wins out over principles.

Bill Johnson

After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.

E. L. Konigsburg

We've got to take confrontation out of the centre of politics. With fighting, no one wins; with dialogue, everyone wins.

Mauricio Macri

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

Salvador Dali

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In comedy, the witty style wins out over every mishap of the plot.

Mason Cooley

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.

Isabelle Huppert

In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles.

James Cook

Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing - until someone wins.