Don't worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition

I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but
we don't recognize it. Maybe to recognize it, we have to believe in it.

Don’t work for recognition but do work worthy of recognition.

It takes real work to grasp what is invisible to just about everyone else.

Success is just a little more effort.

Maybe when you meet the people you are supposed to meet you know it, without knowing it.

Even if you don’t know what you’re doing, the simple act of working on it will eventually cause the right ideas to show up in your head.

There was a lot of halting and waiting, little acknowledgment, little affirmation, but sometimes all it takes is a wink or a nod from some unexpected place to vary the tedium of a baffling existence.

All there is to thinking, he said, is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren't noticing which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

there are some things you don't even know you know, until you're asked.

The only surprising thing about miracles, however small, is that they sometimes happen.

People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others.
[The human element]

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necesary to a worthwhile achievement".

A desire for recognition emerges at the same time as a sense of inferiority.