On success
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If you have a dream, a passion and have the opportunity to make it happen, great. BUT, if you can’t get to it right away, which is quite often the case, give the job you’re doing 100 per cent and keep your eyes open. You never know what opportunity might arise … something you never thought of could become your life’s work. Success of any kind is the result of hard work … there’s no shortcut.
— Anne Murray
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "If you have a dream, a passion and have the opportunity to make it happen, great. BUT, if you can’t get to it right away, which is quite often the case, give the job you’re doing 100 per cent and keep your eyes open. You never know what opportunity might arise … something you never thought of could become your life’s work. Success of any kind is the result of hard work … there’s no shortcut." in the context of "On success" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Anne Murray" (Quotes, Mount Saint Vincent University speech (2016): Anne Murray, "Anne Murray to 2016 grads: ‘Send thank you notes!’", published 20 May 2016, MacLeans.ca (Canada))
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About Anne Murray
Morna Anne Murray CC ONS (born 20 June 1945) is a Canadian retired singer and philanthropist whose career was successful in the 1970s and the 1980s. Murray is the mother of Canadian singer and painter Dawn Langstroth.
About Anne Murray
Morna Anne Murray CC ONS (born 20 June 1945) is a Canadian retired singer and philanthropist whose career was successful in the 1970s and the 1980s. Murray is the mother of Canadian singer and painter Dawn Langstroth.
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