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I'm a professor - there should be some lessons learned - and how you can use the stuff you hear today to enable your dreams or enable the dreams of others. And as you get older you may find that enabling-the-dreams-of-others thing is even more fun.

Randy Pausch

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Randy Pausch
Age: 47 †
Born: 1960
Born: October 23
Died: 2008
Died: July 25
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If you want something bad enough, never give up (and take a boost when offered).
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Because you’re such a good salesman, and if you go work for a company, they’re going to use you as a salesman. If you’re going to be a salesman, you might as well be selling something worthwhile, like education
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The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.
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Go out and do for others what somebody did for you.
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There are more ways than one to measure profits and losses.
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Experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.
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No job should, be beneath us. And if you can't(or won't) sort mail, Where is the proof that you can do anything?
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All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing: We worked hard at it.
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Respect authority while questioning it.
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The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.
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Your patience will be both appreciated and rewarded
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Look for the best in everybody
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If I was able to tell my story with the passion I felt, my lecture might help others find a path to fulfilling their own dreams.
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Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want
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I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.
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Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.
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To be cliché, death is a part of life and it's going to happen to all of us. I have the blessing of getting a little bit of advance notice and I am able to optimize my use of time down the home stretch.
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Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.
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Anything is possible, and that’s something we should not lose sight of. The inspiration and the permission to dream is huge.
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