When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
In plain words
Do ordinary things unusually well and the world notices.
Where these words come from
- 44% sureLots of sources credit George Washington Carver with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- widely attributed, no primary source found — cited to two Carver biographies (1954, 1982), but a researcher flagged it as likely "the gist of Carver's words rather than a verbatim quote"
