Commonplace Quote by Seth Godin

Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)

— William Shakespeare

If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?

— Anonymous

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

— Anonymous

If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.

— Seth Godin

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“What I mean to say is that in a highly exceptional reality [...] the non-exceptional can, for convenience sake, be written off as paradoxically exceptional.”

— Haruki Murakami

“The dramatic and the sensational seldom yield the treasures of enlightenment that the commonplace and the unpretentious often harbour unsuspected. For being as much…

— Louise de Kiriline Lawrence

“Every one of the big breakthroughs in the art of literature have possibly started as what many would call a ludicrous or even laughable…

— Karl Wiggins

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The extraordinarily facile and in literary terms long lived works tend to be about ordinary people. Even Sappho writes about the utterly insignificant .…

— Robert Dessaix

“People look for greatness only in the extraordinary and completely overlook the wonder of the ordinary.”

— Ann Tatlock

We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people.

— Paulo Coelho