Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.

Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.

As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest.

One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.

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

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

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.

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.

In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy. You can't order one from a biological supply house. It's a unique discovery, a unique specimen.

I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution.

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.

To eradicate blindness, let us expand our vision. Let us dream and take actions to make blindness a history from the past.

If you surround yourself with flowers of love, peace, and kindness, you will always find yourself in a garden of joy and happiness.

Grace runs downhill and now all his time is being redeemed.

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

I believe in perpetual art, no matter if there are not many artists like me on this earth.

What I hated was doing what somebody in LA thought Jeff Foxworthy ought to do.

I have learned that the place where I subsist is all places, and the space I occupy is all intervals.

If Bono left, we could carry on. If I left, we'd be screwed.

I threw so hard (after striking out Art Fletcher & Doc Crandall in the 9th inning of Game 1 of the 1912 World Series) I thought my arm would fly right off my body.

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.