Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere. — Fellowship of the Ring

My Take – There are indeed titans in our world, but the world runs through the small contributions of ordinary folk.  Achilles would have just been another warrior without the guys who rowed his boat.  Edison would have been a tinkerer without the mechanic who made his visions reality.  Just by getting up every day and getting on with your business, you do more than a lot of people, even if it’s the same thing you do every day.  It is the small things done by those of us who do the mundane work of the world that allow the ‘great people’ to do the things that get written down in the history books and told as legends around the fire.