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Denominator Quotes

The shared trait beneath very different things.

Every quote here leans on the phrase common denominator, usually as a warning against settling for the least demanding option, whether in wilderness policy, company technology standards, or film characters that start to feel alike.

One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.

Quotes by Tina Brown

Email has the virtue - sounds like a bad thing, but it's the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol. Everyone can have it. It can cross organizational boundaries. No one owns it. It's not some particular company's...

Quotes by Stewart Butterfield

Inside a company, you can mandate that everyone use the same technology, which means you can go a little bit, I don't know, higher fidelity than the lowest common denominator technology.

Quotes by Stewart Butterfield

Sports is the common denominator in the world that brings everyone together. If there's any one place in the world where there is equality, it is probably sports. That was something that didn't always exist. We've come a long way...

Quotes by Stephen M. Ross

Abundance Quotes

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

If there's a common denominator in all of the parts I've played, they are all strong women in tough situations.

Quotes by Sonya Walger

People with mental health problems are almost never dangerous. In fact, they are more likely to be the victims than the perpetrators. At the same time, mental illness has been the common denominator in one act of mass violence after...

Quotes by Roy Blunt

It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.

Quotes by Ray Romano

Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

Quotes by Nick Rahall

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If anything, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.

Quotes by Meghan Daum

Any artist, the work you do, if it's a painting or if it's a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something...

Quotes by Matthew McConaughey

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.

Quotes by Len Goodman

Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.

Quotes by Juliette Binoche

Failure is an awful thing, and when I look at the common denominator of failure, it seems to always be the same thing: excuses.

Quotes by Jon Taffer

Common Denominator Quotes

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Quotes by Jimmy Carter

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

Quotes by Jenna Elfman

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

Quotes by Hannah Arendt

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them.

Quotes by Guy Gavriel Kay

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

Quotes by Cristina Saralegui

Day Quotes

We have to take risks in British television. It has to stop playing to the lowest common denominator and patronising people.

Quotes by Charles Dance

Frequently Asked Questions

What is this Denominator page actually about?
It collects quotes that use the phrase common denominator, almost always in its figurative sense of a shared baseline trait or standard, applied to policy, film, and technology.
Why do people search for common denominator quotes?
The phrase lowest common denominator is widely used as shorthand for settling for the least demanding option, so people look up quotes that capture that idea in a memorable way.
How is common denominator used in a policy context here?
One quote argues against seeking the lowest common denominator in wilderness policy, warning that doing so saddles a wilderness designation with too many exceptions and exemptions.
Does a common denominator quote apply to people rather than policy?
Yes, one line describes a shared trait among super-affluent men: an unchallenged, daily conviction that the world revolves around them, using common denominator to describe personality rather than rules.
Is there a quote connecting common denominator to filmmaking?
One filmmaker reflects on once assuming there was a common denominator linking all the characters across their films, as if they were sisters, before becoming less certain of that pattern.

One quote turns the phrase toward people instead of policy, describing a shared trait among super-affluent men. For quotes on adjusting course rather than settling, see the Change quotes page.