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Randy Pausch
Age: 47 †
Born: 1960
Born: October 23
Died: 2008
Died: July 25
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A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.
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It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.
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Brick walls are there for reason. And once you get over them-- even if someone has practically had to throw you over-- it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it.
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Most people who have told a lie think they got away with it … when in fact, they didn’t
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I'm dying, and I'm having fun.
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You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.
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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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Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.
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He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist.
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Look for the best in everybody
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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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Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the enrgy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.
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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.
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When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.
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Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.
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I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they're given the resources.
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And even though I did not reach the National Football League, I sometimes think I got more from pursuing that dream, and not accomplishing it, than I did from many of the ones I did accomplish.
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Don’t complain just work harder.
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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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Remember how quickly our field [computer science] changes. That's why you want to focus on learning things that don't change: how to work well with other people, how to carefully assess a client's real - as opposed to perceived - needs, and things like that.
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