Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.
In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.
There is nothing special about Tim Scott.
I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.
Late-night television is like the cereal aisle in the supermarket: too many choices. Also, too many 'different' brands that really aren't different at all.
This is the idea that has made me...an anonymous figure in America...If you have children here tonight...they are NOT special.
Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.
De tall, dark vun--dere's nothing special about him at all," ter Borcht said dismissively of Fang, who hadn't moved since the doctor had come in. Well, he's a snappy dresser," I offered. One side of Fang's mouth quirked.
But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.
TV has made everyone so vanilla it's nearly impossible to tell one anchor apart from another.
I really do not have a favorite amongst Trump surrogates. They all look the same to me. They really all sound eerily alike.
She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as "nothing" I walked in a gray world of nothing.
No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.
The egotism of people who are eminent without being in the least distinguished and somehow feeling that's their due - that seems to me to be a peculiarly English phenomenon.
One listless day followed another, with nothing to distinguish one from the next. You could have changed the order and no one would have noticed.
In the dark, all cats are grey.
I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
Praising all alike, is praising none.
I was not one of the popular kids, I was not great at sports, girls didn't pay attention to me.I was just pretty much an average kid, no stand-out abilities, nothing note-worthy.
I don't even know Amanda Seyfried or whatever - they're all the same!
