You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.