The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
Editing is simply the application of the common sense of any good reader. That's why, to be an editor, you have to be a reader. It's the number one qualification.
Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.
The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
Common sense implies a cup of wisdom, a dash of discernment, and a dollop of intellectual acumen that's blended clean and translucent.
Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
Nobody came out of the womb with common sense. Life is progressive, we learn as we grow
Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.
Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.
Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.
Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.
Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
People in blind love throw away common sense, conscience and comedy from the life.
Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.
A blanket could be used to cure the common cold. I mean, come on it’s just common sense. A blanket is warm, and if a cold is what it’s named, then a blanket would transform a cold into some nameless nonentity. Take that, Louis Pasteur.
As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.
I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.
