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Randy Pausch
Age: 47 †
Born: 1960
Born: October 23
Died: 2008
Died: July 25
Computer Scientist
Motivational Speaker
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Randy Frederick Pausch
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If you want something bad enough, never give up (and take a boost when offered).
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It's not helpful if we spend every day dreading tomorrow ~Jai
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Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.
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The best gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become self reflective.
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Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.
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We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.
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Brick walls let us prove how badly we want our dream and they stop those who don't want it enough. Brick walls let us show our dedication.
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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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I feel like I'm waiting on something that isn't going to happen Don't complain just work harder.
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Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.
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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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The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!
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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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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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When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.
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We've placed a lot of emphasis in this country on the idea of people's rights. That's how it should be, but it makes no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities.
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Find the best in everybody, no matter how long you have to wait for them to show it
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We keep what is valuable to us, what we cherish.
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It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.
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What he said was: You obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do a disservice by putting it anywhere. And boy was that good advice. Because what he said was, you obviously don't know where the bar should be, and you're only going to do them a disservice by putting it anywhere.
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