Hidden Efforts Quotes

I do a lot of writing. People don't actually know how much writing really I do.

Behind every great man is his wife trying to keep him alive.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

We only see the glamour side of stars but not how they've achieved it.

People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.

Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't.

I do a lot of things behind the scenes. I do a lot of things that don't hit the headlines.

I can move, but I've never background-danced for anybody.

My life's work has been to prompt others and be forgotten. Remember that night when Christian came to your balcony? That moment sums up my life. While I was below in the shadows, others climbed up to kiss the sweet rose.

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos.

I love the idea of what America is. America is a bunch of people that do these incredible, thankless, selfless jobs that nobody really knows about that makes that American dream possible.

One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation')

Everyone sees the glory moments, but they don't see what happens behind the scenes.

The secret studies of an author are the sunken piers upon which is to rest the bridge of his fame, spanning the dark waters of oblivion. They are out of sight, but without them no superstructure can stand secure.

Of course, the attacking players get the attention because they score the goals, score nice goals, and those are the moments that remain in memory. But I wish that other players who are not in the foreground, who still perform well for their club or association, get more recognition.

People are rewarded in public for what the practice for years in private.