Unappreciated Contributions Quotes

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.

I've never gotten enough credit!

I'm under-appreciated, of course.

What's funny about my resume is so much of what I've done has not been seen.

I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.

People who are creating history don't realize they're creating it at the time it's happening.

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

People think I disappear sporadically, but I just do projects that don't get international acclaim.

It's the reaction I've gotten my whole life: that I learn something and try to tell people in conversation, but when I tell them, they are annoyed.

I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best.

I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point.

Now it has appeared to me unfair that humanity should be engaged perpetually in calling all those things bad which have been good enough to make other things better, in everlastingly kicking down the ladder by which it has climbed. It has appeared to me that progress should be something else besides a continual parricide; therefore I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.

When the history of the 20th century is written, there are going to be some pretty obscure people who are entitled to sainthood. And they're not going to be well-known.