"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."

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Source : "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

Donald Johanson

#Opportunity Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Digging Quotes

“Screenwriting involves an often un-personal process. Co-writers, directors, producers, everyone has a say in what you put on a page, and stories are constantly changing according to budget, actors, and commercial needs. Films are a collaborative process and are also inherently narrative and structured, so you are always working within very tight parameters. Short fiction unleashes a more intimate voice and a passion for language. I believe short narratives can have the same amount of danger and drama as any action film.”
“Unfortunately, today's colleges and universities, and especially our business schools, do not offer pragmatic crisis management teachings.”
“I remember distinctly telling my father-in-law, barring a miracle, we're going to have to terminate the pregnancy. Her health has to come first”

Source : "Faith, medical technology save a young mom" By Rhonda Rowland, www.cnn.com. May 10, 2002.
“What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.”
“The brain is the great factory of thought. To it are directed all the forces of nature, forces which, for thousands of years, have been expending themselves upon it and impressing on it a slow and continuous motion of evolution.”
“Only about half of all commercials actually work.”
“I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere recreation in one day than I spent in private religious devotions.”
“Scotland's voice has to be heard”

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