Unrecognized Contribution Quotes

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it

Many incredible artists die before they were famous.

I'd reached the point at West Brom where I'd play well, score goals, set up goals and nothing would come from it. I'd go home, come back the next day and everything would be the same. No reward, no response.

The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school, reading his newspaper, and cheering for the politician of his admiration, but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays — but he always pays — yes, above all, he pays.

No one behind you gets the appreciation they deserve.

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.

I'm just used to working harder than everybody and other people taking the credit.

My acting is still being recognized for the fact that I wasn't nominated.

They seem not to listen to what I have to say, so I'm going to quit.

I was always working; it's just that no one was paying attention.

If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either.

Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died.

Eaten bread is forgotten.

Because I was in Atlanta, people didn't realize I'm one of the real forefathers in the game.

People thought I was wasting my time and the company's money, for that matter.

A lot of time, you play well and you do good work, but you are not on a good team, so it really doesn't mean anything.

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence.

I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.

Let no man write my epitaph. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not until then, let my epitaph be written.

A lot of work - unattributed, with no dollars - goes into taking care of kids.

I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits.