The greatest breakthroughs are missed because they look like really hard work.

The most remarkable leaps into the unknown are often not fully appreciated,

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.

...the challenging circumstances in low resource settings are often overlooked by scientists in affluent countries.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

The revolution will go unnoticed.

Things of the first importance are few; let appreciation be rare.

These half-baked, right-in-the-middle-of-something-else new ideas lead to half-finished, abandoned projects that litter the landscape and zap morale.

It tackles a wonderful subject without preening, and brings it off unassertively — so unassertively that the movie is in danger of being overlooked. (Variety has already dismissed it as something "for a very limited audience.") We're getting to the point where the press assumes that movie audiences won't be willing to bring anything to a picture, and warns them off.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

As organizations grow large, important work can go unnoticed, the hardest workers can get passed over by the best politicians, and bureaucratic processes can choke out the creativity and remove all the joy.

He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.