"One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it."

Success, Successful, Commitment, Pursuit

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"One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it."

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"When you focus on diligence and hard work miracle will come to you."

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"The knowledge of the purpose of the success that you receive by grace in every area will keep us from pride and the love of money."

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"There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved."

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"My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago."

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"And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask."

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"But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures."

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"Most achievers I know are people who have made a strong and deep dedication to pursuing a particular goal. That dedication took a tremendous amount of effort."

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"But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor."

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