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.
Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.
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.
I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.
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 is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.
We tend to block off many of our senses when we're staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses.
What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. This relates to respect for each other and carelessness is personally offensive.
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.
