Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.

Mediocrity is underrated.

Expectations were pretty low and they are meeting them.

I wasn't into making classmates laugh - or any of the comedy cliches. I wanted to disappear. I was a nonentity. I wasn't too clever but I wasn't in the bottom group. I wasn't loud but I wasn't quiet. I wasn't a bully and I wasn't bullied.

I feel like, the more you hang around, the more you're forgotten. It doesn't matter how good you are.

I don't want to be special.

We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!

The height of mediocrity is still low.

A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it.

Most people are reasonable. That's why they only do reasonably well.

If you can be still enough and common enough, then it's really easy to be invisible.

Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.

Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not afraid of total failure because I don't think that will happen. I'm not afraid of success because that beats the hell out of failure. It's being in the middle that scares me.

Average feels safe but it's not. It's invisible.

Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.

The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.

Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.

I've known people who thought that reaching their potential would come from shoring up their weaknesses. But do you know what happens when you spend all your time working on your weaknesses and never developing your strengths? If you work really hard, you might claw your way all the way to mediocrity! But you'll never get beyond it.

You are not invisible to your Heavenly Father. He loves you.

So you’re reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It’s like having feet. It’s nothing to brag about.

There’s fish in here that I’ve read about that are so see-through that they’re invisible. So I don’t even think they know they exist.

Most people are not particularly good at anything.

If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.

I am not Nostradamus.Nor would I want to be. I'm convinced being able to tell the future is the worst superpower. I'd rather be invisible and being invisible never ends well. Just read H. G. Wells!

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.