Bill Hewlett, founder of Hewlett-Packard (1913 2001)"Sustained success is largely a matter of focusing regularly on the right things and making a lot of uncelebrated little improvements every day".
The government badly wanted this last foot-soldier to be memorialised; but he preferred to be uncelebrated and ordinary, even in some sense forgotten, and thus the more symbolic of all the rest.
He picked a journey through what he calls "in-between" France, the small towns and once-rural parts now invaded by urban and commercial creep, in order to record the deserted, domestic corners unvisited by foreign tourists and uncelebrated by the French.
Other symbolic actions evoked the "uncelebrated weddings", the "unrealised talents" and the "meetings that never took place".
The centennial of the birth of that quintessentially American playwright Tennessee Williams did not go uncelebrated in 2011.
Here are five facts about New Zealand's most uncelebrated brains: The astronomer realised that, since galaxies are made out of billions of stars, scientists could use what they already knew about the lives of stars to learn about the histories of galaxies.
Local heritage goes largely uncelebrated, except in Oberau's Kellerwirt hotel and restaurant, which is a history lesson in itself.
Furious, she then went to her bank & drew out the money she wanted, and so joined the ranks of the uncelebrated who always carry more than $50 in cash.
But the past was presumably populated with countless uncelebrated people who might have received a diagnosis.
Even fewer would actually cut up the can, dip it in a silver bath, and use it as an accessory in a fashion collection, along with a few other previously uncelebrated kitchen items, such as mesh tea balls and steel-wool pads.
He was largely uncelebrated in either place — perhaps because some Jews took his success in saving people as a rebuke to their own helplessness.
